All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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Quotes by John Locke
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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.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
All wealth is the product of labor.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
What worries you, masters you.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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