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.
Thomas HobbesGovernment is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas HobbesAnd therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.
Thomas Hobbes