Harold J. Laski: “Nor must we confound liberty with certain other goods without which it has no meaning.”

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

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

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

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