John Wilkes Quotes

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Earl Of Sandwich: 'Pon my soul, Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die upon the gallows or of the pox.
Wilkes: That depends, my Lord, whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles, or your Lordship's mistresses.

John Wilkes

The liberty of the press is the birth-right of a Briton, and is justly esteemed the firmest bulwark of the liberties of this country.

John Wilkes

Give me a grain of truth and I will mix it up with a great mass of falsehood so that no chemist will ever be able to separate them.

John Wilkes