The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

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.

In the middle of all the ordinary--something extraordinary shows up.

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

Whatever come we have to meet it.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.