Harold J. Laski: “He does not doubt the original equality of men.”

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

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.