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

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.

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

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

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

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.

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .