"The greatest good is the greatest evil: or rather, the greatest evil is that which is most destructive of life."

"For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that giveth the true interpretation of a law."

"But the most frequent reason why men desire to hurt each other, proceedeth from this, that one man's will is contrary to another's will, or his action to another's action, or his words to another's wo…"

"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man."

"The value of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is, so much as would be given for the use of his power."