[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
JOHN LOCKEMoral 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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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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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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