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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

John Locke

Revolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKE

People Revolt Right
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
JOHN LOCKE

Amendment Liberty Reason Second
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
JOHN LOCKE

Fighting Mean Opponents
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
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.
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Ends Freedom Law
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowing Men Reading
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
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
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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Order Respect Son
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
JOHN LOCKE

Errors Giving Mistakes

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

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