"Rebellion is a disease that proceeds from the ignorance of the people, and the ambition of the few."

"A free man is he that... is not hindered to do what he has the will to do."

"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

"The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good."

"The liberty of a subject lieth therefore only in those things, which in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted."