Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKEThe Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
More John Locke Quotes
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Revolt is the right of the people
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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