The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
JOHN LOCKEHe that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
More John Locke Quotes
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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