Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.