"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 join and unite into a community."

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

"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."

"The discipline of the church, whether it be excommunication or any other censure, is directed only to the amendment of the offender, and to deter others from like offences."

"The law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world, be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innoc…"