In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKETill a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
More John Locke Quotes
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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