Wilkes, John : (1727-97), popular London journalist & M.P., regarded as champion of liberty & victim of persecution having been repeatedly expelled from Parliament.
... An apparently personal question often conceals one of essential principle, even when the person is not as in this case Page 766 a great patriot and leader. It was not for profligate John Wilkes that the people of Middlesex fought in the eighteenth century but for the liberty of the Press which was attacked in his person. We too fight not for honour to be done to a man however great and ...
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