"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."