Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Where there is no common power, there is no law
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.