There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

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

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

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.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.