Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
JOHN LOCKESince 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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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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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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I 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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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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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