"As if it were not enough to have been once in a war, but must also be perpetually in a posture of war."

"In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

"For there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense."

"And from this diffidence of one another, there is no way for any man to secure himself, so reasonable, as anticipation; that is, by force, or wiles, to master the persons of all men he can, so long, t…"

"The greatest good, is the preservation of life."