Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

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.

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.