"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."

"Truth, like gold, is not less so for being found in the dirt."

"For I confess myself to have been guilty of the same error, of not having looked far enough into the nature of the thing."

"Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."