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.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

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.

No arts, no letters - no society.

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

The reputation of power IS power.