4. Mary Wollstonecraft If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
5. John Locke All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
6. Thomas Hobbes During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
7. Adam Smith It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
