English Advocate for Women's Rights
"All people have natural rights including life, liberty, and property"
Hobbes
"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"
Wollstonecraft
Government should have checks and balances
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow man"
Voltaire
People give up some rights in return for protection
Locke
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Rousseau
People are the source of the government's power
People are wicked and need strong government
Freedom of Speech
"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience"
Montesquieu
"Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short"