| Term | Definition |
|---|
| John Locke | "We shall not have much reason to complain of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them about what may be of use to us; for of that they are very capable" |
| John Locke | "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom" |
| Magna Carta | "No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land" |
| Adam Smith | "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. WE address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages" |
| NIccolo Machiavelli | "Upon this a question arises; whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them to one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with" |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | "The Citizens in a Republic who attempt an enterprise either in favor of Liberty or in favor of Tyranny, ought to consider the condition of things, and judge the difficulty of the enterprise; for it is as difficult and dangerous to want to make a people free who want to live in servitude as to want to make a people slave who want to live free |
| Baron Montesquieu | "when the legislative and executive are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner" |
| Baron Montesquieu | "there is nothing so powerful as a republic in which the laws are observed not through fear, not through reason, but through passion" |
| John Dickinson | "In fact, if the people of New York cannot be legally taxed but by their own representatives, they cannot be legally deprived of the privileged of legislation , only for insisting on that exclusive privilege of taxation. If they may be legally deprived in such a case of the privilege of legislation why may they not, with equal reason, be deprived of every other privilege?" |
| Thomas Jefferson | "Let them not think to exclude us from going to other markets to dispose of those commodities which they cannot use, or to supply the wants those wants which they cannot supply. Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own" |
| John Woolman | "These are people who have made no agreement to serve us, and who have not forfeited their liberty that we know of. These are the souls for whom Christ died, and for our conduct towards them we must answer before Him who is no respecter of persons" |
| John Adams | " A representation of the people in one assembly being obtained, a question arises, whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one assembly." |
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