If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
JOHN LOCKEThe 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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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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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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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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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.
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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