Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

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.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

America has so much debt, if she were a person she'd need a co-signer to get a car loan.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!