Harold J. Laski: “I know no instance in history in which men in possession of power have voluntarily abdicated its privileges.”

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

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

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