Harold J. Laski: “Once we inhibit freedom of speech, we inhibit criticism of social institutions.”

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

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.