"The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort, as that by their own…"

"When a man's discourse beginneth not with definitions, it is a sign that he gropes in the dark."

"For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protec…"

"For seeing that the whole life of man is but a motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust."