I'm British so I don't really understand these things, but wasn't Grant a UNIONIST general?

This a quotation from Locke's Second Treatise. There are two problems here: 1) The text is not an exact reproduction of the original (see below) 2) It misses out the crucial caveat in the last phrase which is a loophole for Statists. “Though the Earth and all inferior Creatures be common to all men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with, and joyned to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by the labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other Men. For this Labour being the unquestionable Property of the Labourer, no Man but he can have a right to what is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.”

JDoN: Maybe you are thinking of GK Chesterton: "When men cease to believe in God, they do not believe in nothing; they believe in anything!"

I believe (subject to correction) that this is an excerpt from a speech that Senator Calhoun made in the Senate in February 1833.

This quotation is taken from Plato's Republic. Emerson built on this to write that "Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,—that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”

This is a literary allusion to Tacitus' well-known irony: "To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace." [Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. ]