O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the Old World is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, wi…

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without ?violence 'democra…

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven o…