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

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

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.

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.

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

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.