"The study of the original of our own ideas is, I confess, a dry and barren speculation."

"The right of judging, that is, of determining all matters of controversy between subjects, whether they concern the interpretation of laws, or the examination of facts, belongs to the magistrate."

"The Bible is a book of faith, and not of science."

"The greatest part of mankind are more disposed to suffer, whilst evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

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