“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

“To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.”

“The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”

“For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”

“War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known”

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.”

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”