Revolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKEIf 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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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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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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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