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

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

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.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

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

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

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