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

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

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

For violence or fraud can create no right.

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.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

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.