If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.