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.
JOHN LOCKEThere are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
More John Locke Quotes
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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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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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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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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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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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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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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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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