Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKESlavery 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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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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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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