"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…"

"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."

"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."

"The necessity of believing, without a perfect comprehension, is a great part of the discipline of the mind."

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