"For every man by nature is supposed to be equal to every other man, and therefore, if there be no common power to keep them in awe, they will be in a state of war, of every man against every man."

"No man can have a right to anything, unless he has a power to defend it."

"The science of every man's duty, which is called ethics, is nothing else but the knowledge of what is good and evil in the actions of men."

"For what is there in the world, that is not obnoxious to the change of time, and the violence of men?"

"The liberty of a subject lieth therefore only in those things, which in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted."