Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

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

Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.