Revolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKEI do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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