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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

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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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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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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.
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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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What worries you, masters you.
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It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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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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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Children generally hate to be idle all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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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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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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