[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
JOHN LOCKEBeware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
More John Locke Quotes
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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