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Own Quotes by John Locke
- If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the…
- Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
- To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
- The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
- I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions…
- For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;…
- Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and…
- 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…
- Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall presently…
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