Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
JOHN LOCKEAnd thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
More John Locke Quotes
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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