"Every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his."

"The strength of a man's mind is only to be estimated by the weight of the truths it can contain."

"He that knows any thing, knows that he knows not all things."

"The commonwealth ought to determine what punishments shall be inflicted on those who transgress the laws."

"Though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of pr…"