So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.