Franklin

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

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

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
― John Locke

“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
― Thomas Hobbes