Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain.