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Quotes by John Locke
- 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.
- 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.
- The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
- There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
- 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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