For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
How vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
For they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for
I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar’s child ... to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of...
I desired that the Senate of Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and a modern representative, in counterview, in another. The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demi-gods; the...
Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.
When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
My master likewise mentioned another Quality which his Servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable. He said, a Fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo, to retire into a C...
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud,...
Books, the children of the brain.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
A crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with ki...
When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope;...
Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into the circumstances and postures of life that the author was in...
I said, 'there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid....