The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.