Harold J. Laski: “The nation, as was shown in 1745, when a handful of Highlanders penetrated without opposition to the heart of the…”

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

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