Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-John Adams

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

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
-John Locke

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
-John Adams