[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
JOHN LOCKESuccess in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
More John Locke Quotes
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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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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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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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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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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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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