"No government can have a right to obedience from a people who have not freely consented to it."

"The greatest part of mankind are more influenced by example than by precept."

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule."

"The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs... has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who…"

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fan…"