"Men, being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent."

"For where there is no property, there is no injustice."

"Parents have a power over their children, to support and govern them for their good, till they are of capacity to shift for themselves."

"Rebellion is an opposition, not to persons, but to authority."

"The only way whereby any one divests himself of his Natural Liberty, and puts on the bonds of Civil Society, is by agreeing with other Men to joyn and unite into a Community, for their comfortable, sa…"