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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

John Locke

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Balance Men Self
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
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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Father Liberty Son
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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Atheism Credit Reason
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
[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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Blood Men Thinking
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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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People

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