Harold J. Laski: “That was possible before the Reformation; but with the advent of Nonconformity and the growth of rationalism the…”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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

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