If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
JOHN LOCKERevolt is the right of the people
More John Locke Quotes
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The 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.
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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.
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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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Slavery 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.
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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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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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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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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
JOHN LOCKE