War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

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.

Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it.

In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn’t too good at anything.

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.

I am the rain, when I'm on math I make the day horrible that's why the day is horrible, that's why I don't go outside.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.