Revolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKEMemory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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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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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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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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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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