"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world."

"Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that 'tis hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman…"

"The people cannot be safe, though the form of the commonwealth be never so exactly framed, unless they have a right to change the legislative power, when they find the legislative act contrary to the …"

"The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests."

"The greatest part of our knowledge is founded on observation and experience."