In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKEThe body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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