I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

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.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

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.