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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

John Locke

In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKE

America Patriotic World
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKE

Freedom Names Play
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKE

Business Philosophy War
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Education Philosophical Wisdom
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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Exercise Giving Skills
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKE

Common Errors Neglect
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
JOHN LOCKE

Judgement Judging Prison
[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.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Errors Giving Mistakes
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Pain Suffering
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
JOHN LOCKE

Given Mean Provision

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