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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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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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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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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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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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Men in great place are thrice servants servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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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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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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What worries you, masters you.
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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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