Political Philosophy
- John Adams, Correspondence with Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, 29 October, 1775: "Human nature, with all its infirmities and deprivation, is still capable of great things. It..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 132: "Usurpers always bring about or choose disjointed times, in order to pass, under the cover..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 136: "I have already said what civil liberty is; with regard to equality, it is necessary..."
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Section 17: "He that, in the state of nature, would take away the freedom that belongs to..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 235: "In place of governing the subjects in order to render them happy, despotism makes them..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 254: "When the Prince no longer administers the State in accordance with laws and usurps the..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 256: "When the State dissolves, the abuse of Government, whatever it might be, takes the common..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 57: "The impulsion of mere appetite is slavery, and obedience to the law one prescribes to..."
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Section 57: "Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of..."
- Jeremy Bentham, The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number, Section II. First Principles Enumerated — Human Nature 1: "For further proof, reference may be made to the general, indeed the all-comprehensive, principle of..."