Harold J. Laski: “In the Wilkes affair he threw the clearest light of the century upon the true nature of the House of Commons.”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

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.

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.