"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 …"

"Men, being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent."

"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…"

"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 actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."