If they were not both apt to be out of Breath, there would be no living.
If Prerogative will urge Reason to support it, it must bear Reason when it resisteth it.
It is a Diminution instead of a Glory, to be above treating upon equal Terms with Reason.
If the People were designed to be the sole Property of the supream Magistrate, sure God would have made them of a differing and subordinate Species; as he hath the Beasts, that by the Inferiority of their Nature they might the better submit to the Dominion of Mankind.
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the World.
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.
Liberty can neither be got, nor kept, but by so much Care, that Mankind generally are unwilling to give the Price for it. And therefore, in the Contest between Ease and Liberty, the first hath generally prevailed.
Of Laws.
Laws are generally not understood by three Sorts of Persons, viz. by those that make them, by those that execute them, and by those that suffer, if they break them.
Men seldom understand any Laws but those they feel.