How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"[…] And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely." (6.238)
Mr. Smith, the villager, has a very different notion of Englishness from Stevens—his is emphatically democratic. He thinks that Stevens should have spoken out against working for a kinda sorta maybe Nazi sympathizer.
Quote #8
"[…] For the likes of yourself, it's always been easy to exert your influence. You can count the most powerful in the land as your friends […]. It gets easy for us here to forget our responsibility as citizens […]. This is a democratic country we're living in." (6.263)
Here Mr. Smith criticizes the kind of political elitism we get in Quote #6.
Quote #9
But life being what it is, how can ordinary people truly be expected to have "strong opinions" on all manner of things—as Mr. Harry Smith rather fancifully claims the villagers here do? (6.310)
Stevens's comment is hilarious, given that Lord Darlington is demonstrated to have strong but utterly misguided opinions. He is no better than the ordinary man in this respect.