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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?

John Locke

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
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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.
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Degrees Landed Talk
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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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Blessing Children Men
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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Atheism Government Lying
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son
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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Atheism Credit Reason
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play

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