The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
JOHN LOCKETo 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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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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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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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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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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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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