"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."

"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

"Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death."

"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."

"There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems."

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."