Harold J. Laski: “It misrepresents the situation it confronts by that art of propaganda which, as Mr Cornford has happily said, enables it…”

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

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.