Harold J. Laski: “For in the external, as in the internal, sphere of the state, the choice is between the use of reason and conflict.”

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

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

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

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