Harold J. Laski: “They illustrate the inescapable truth that law must make its way to acceptance through the channel of consenting minds.”

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

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

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

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