Harold J. Laski: “We must not break what Bagehot called the cake of custom, for men have been trained to its digestion, and new food…”

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.