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

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.