Harold J. Laski: “He never concealed from himself that the success of America was bound up with the maintenance of English liberties.”

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.

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

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