Revolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKEThe body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things 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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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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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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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