Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

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

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.

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.