There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.

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.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.