He was never generous, always abusive, and truth did not enter into his calculations.

But he saw with unsurpassed clearness the nature of the issue and he was a powerful instrument in the discomfiture of the king.
He won a new audience for political conflict and that audience was the unenfranchised populace of England.

His letters, moreover, appearing as they did in the daily journals gave the press a significance in politics which it has never lost.

He made the significance of George's effort known to the mass of men at a time when no other means of information was at hand.

The opposition was divided; the king's friends were in a vast majority; the publication of debates was all but impossible.
English government was a secret conflict in which the entrance of spectators was forbidden even though they were the subjects of debate.
It was the glory of Junius that he destroyed that system.