Harold J. Laski: “They realized, first, that in any society where power is gravely unequal, the character and intelligence of those at the…”

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

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.