[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

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

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Liars need to have good memories.

Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.

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.

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