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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

John Locke

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
All wealth is the product of labor.
JOHN LOCKE

Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
JOHN LOCKE

Cherish Children Curiosity
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Giving Thinking
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKE

Allow People Tell

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