"God, when he gave the world to men in common, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him."

"The strength of a man's mind is only to be estimated by the weight of the truths it can contain."

"Government has no other end but the preservation of property."

"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."

"We are born with faculties and powers, capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can be easily imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us abil…"