Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression