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.
JOHN LOCKEHow long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
More John Locke Quotes
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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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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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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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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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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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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