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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

John Locke

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
JOHN LOCKE

Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKE

Love might Pregnancy
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
JOHN LOCKE

Degrees Landed Talk
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Independent Thinking
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Knowing Men
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Credit Reason
All wealth is the product of labor.
JOHN LOCKE

Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKE

Care Fancy Parent
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
JOHN LOCKE

Criminal Men War
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
JOHN LOCKE

Dark Light Player
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKE

Common Errors Neglect
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
JOHN LOCKE

Mind Perfection Practice
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
JOHN LOCKE

Given Mean Provision
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
JOHN LOCKE

Strengthening Struggle Way
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

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