I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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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[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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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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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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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