There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

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.