Where shame is, there is also fear.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.