Harold J. Laski: “The right to sue the state in tort seems to me quite fundamental to freedom.”

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.

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.