"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself."

"The greatest part of mankind are more disposed to suffer, whilst evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

"No government can have a right to obedience from a people who have not freely consented to it."

"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…"

"The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs... has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who…"