The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
JOHN LOCKESo that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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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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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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