By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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.

Right isn't always legal.

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

The secret of great style is to feel good in what you wear

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

What a difference one person can make!

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.