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.
JOHN LOCKEGovernment has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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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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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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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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