A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.