An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness

What magic is there in the pronoun ‘my,’ to overturn the decisions of everlasting truth?

[T]he active rights of man are all of them superseded and rendered null by the superior claims of justice.

[O]ur virtues and our vices may be traced to the incidents which make the history of our lives, and if these incidents could be divested of every improper tendency, vice would be extirpated from the world.