Harold J. Laski: “Men may well be free and yet remain unable to realize the purposes of freedom.”

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

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

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