Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

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.

If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.