John Locke

All wealth is the product of labor.

— John Locke

“What’s that?” “You”

— John Locke

What worries you, masters you.

— John Locke

Don't tell me what I can't do!

— John Locke

“Kimberly. I could”

— John Locke

Logic is the anatomy of thought

— John Locke

Revolt is the right of the people

— John Locke

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

— John Locke

“to hand them to Lola. Then says, “Make sure she gives you the clean”

— John Locke

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

— John Locke

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

— John Locke

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

— John Locke

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

— John Locke

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

— John Locke

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

— John Locke

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

— John Locke

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called…

— John Locke

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

— John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

— John Locke

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

— John Locke

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

— John Locke

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and…

— John Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

— John Locke

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same…

— John Locke

“For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as…

— John Locke

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to…

— John Locke

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind,…

— John Locke

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for…

— John Locke

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should…

— John Locke

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He…

— John Locke

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied…

— John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such…

— John Locke

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,…

— John Locke

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as…

— John Locke

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought…

— John Locke

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been…

— John Locke

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the…

— John Locke

Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a…

— John Locke

“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt…

— John Locke

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,…

— John Locke