Thomas Hobbes's Quote - The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last

Quote by Thomas Hobbes

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last

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. – Thomas Hobbes

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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. – Thomas Hobbes

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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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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. – Thomas Hobbes

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