But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKEIn the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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