Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
JOHN LOCKETo 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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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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Revolt is the right of the people
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