He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.