Harold J. Laski: “For the real meaning of democratic government is the equal weighing of individual claims to happiness by social…”

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

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

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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