In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

He opposed the King's separation from the Roman Catholic Church and refused to accept him as Supreme Head of the Church of England a title which had been given by parliament through the Act of Supremacy of 1534. More coined the word "utopia" – a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation the political system of which he described in Utopia publiThomas Mored in 1516. ".