Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Everytime we've had a misstep, rather than freaking out and not being able to recover, we've always looked to what's the next thing to do.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and we thought.