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.
JOHN LOCKETruth 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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?
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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