"The end of obedience is protection."

"As if it were not enough to have been once in a war, but must also be perpetually in a posture of war."

"For he that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind."

"The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material, and what is not material is not real."

"When a man's discourse beginneth not with definitions, it is a sign that he gropes in the dark."