We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

Liars need to have good memories.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.