"Rebellion is an opposition, not to persons, but to authority."

"The business of men is to be happy; but in this world, I think it is enough if we can avoid being miserable."

"The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community."

"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one…"