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• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• Though I have said above that all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality.
  Age or virtue may give man a just precedency. Excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level ....
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• Political power is as permanent as today's newspaper.
  Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any state was today....
• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. -- John Locke
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
  -- John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding...
• Women who want equality must be prepared to give it and believe in i
  and in order to do that it is not enough to state that you are as good as any man, but also it must be stated he is as good as you and both will be humans together....