"The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort, as that by their own…"

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present."

"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign, is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth, by which he is able to protect them."

"For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that gives the words their true signification."

"Hell is truth seen too late."