Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
JOHN LOCKENot time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
More John Locke Quotes
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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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.
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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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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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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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