Harold J. Laski: “He had an unerring eye for the eternal principles of politics.”

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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

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

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