To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.