"The end of obedience is protection."

"The greatest part of mankind, in their ordinary life, are led by their senses and appetites, and consequently, by the desire of honour, riches, and pleasure; as also by the fear of pain, poverty, and …"

"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…"

"The laws of nature are not properly laws, but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"For if we could not see the motions of the stars, we should not know that there were any stars."