Harold J. Laski: “In such an aspect, it would clearly follow that the Church has no monopoly of truth.”

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

There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

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