Harold J. Laski: “He attacked every measure for the purification of the political system.”

I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

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

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