All wealth is the product of labor.
JOHN LOCKEI 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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[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.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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