Harold J. Laski: “He raised Wilkes to be the champion of representative government and of personal liberty.”

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

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.