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.
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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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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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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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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I 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.
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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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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Truth 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.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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