A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.