Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
JOHN LOCKEWhoever 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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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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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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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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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.
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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.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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