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 LOCKEIn the beginning, all the world was America.
More John Locke Quotes
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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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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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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