The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm.