The Libertie, whereof there is so frequent, and honourable mention, in the Histories, and Philosophy of the Antient Greeks, and Romans, and in the writings, and discourse of those that from them have received all their learning in the Politiques, is not the Libertie of Particular men; but the Libertie of the Common-wealth: which is the same with that, which every man then should have, if there were no Civil Laws, nor Common-wealth at all.
Antzinako greziar eta erromatarren historietan eta filosofian eta politika eremuan ikasi zuten guztia eurengandik hartu zutenen idazki eta hitzaldietan hain aipamen ugari eta ohoragarri dituen askatasun hori ez da gizakume partikularren askatasuna, Estatuen askatasuna baizik, zeina gizakume bakoitzak eduki behar zukeenaren berdina den, baldin lege zibilik ez Estaturik ez balego.