To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKEAny one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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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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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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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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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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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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[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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