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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

John Locke

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Ideas Mind Signification Use
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Liberty Live Men Rules
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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Atheism Government Lying
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

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