Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.