He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

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

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.

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

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.

In the beginning, all the world was America.