Harold J. Laski: “They are unfree whenever the rules to which they have to conform compel them to conduct which they dislike and resent.”

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

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

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

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