No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
JOHN LOCKEAs 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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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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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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