The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
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.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.