Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

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

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.