“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty...Again, there is no liberty if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive”
“People are driven by a restless desire for power. Without laws or other social controls, people would always be in conflict. In such a state of nature, life would be nasty, brutish and short."

Rewrite in modern language..