Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.