Thomas Hobbes — "Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."

"The right of nature, which writers commonly call Jus Naturale, 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 ow…"

"To believe in God, is to believe that there is a God; that is to say, to assent to this proposition, that God is. Not that I understand what God is, but that I believe that he is; and therefore, that …"

"And from this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place."

"The instruction of the people dependeth wholly on the right teaching of divinity."

"To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust."