Swords Were Given To Men,

It Is Not Necessary To Light A Candle To The Sun

Who Will Wear A Shoe That Hurts Him, Because The Shoe-maker Tells Him 'tis Well Made?

[l]iberty Cannot Be Preserved, If The Manners Of The People Are Corrupted . . .

The Only Ends For Which Governments Are Constituted, And Obedience Rendered To Them, Are The Obtaining Of And Protection; And They Who Cannot Provide For Both Give The People A Right Of Taking Such Ways As Best Please Themselves, In Order To Their Own Safety.

Nay, All Laws Must Fall, Human Societies That Subsist By Them Be Dissolved, And All Innocent Persons Be Exposed To The Violence Of The Most Wicked, If Men Might Not Justly Defend Themselves Against Injustice By Their Own Natural Right, When The Ways Prescribed By Publick Authority Cannot Be Taken.