"Men that have a strong opinion of their own wisdom in matter of government are disposed to ambition, because without public employment in council or magistracy the honour of their wisdom is lost. And therefore eloquent speakers are inclined to ambition; for eloquence seemeth wisdom, both to themselves and others."
—Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
(Chap. xi Of the Difference of Manners [13])
"For I doubt not but if it had been a thing contrary to any man's right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square, that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able."
—Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
(Chap. xi Of the Difference of Manners [21]) 
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