No peace and security among mankind — let alone common friendship — can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from … - John Locke

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.