John Locke
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.Collection: Alone
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.Collection: Finance
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.Collection: Men
What worries you, masters you.Collection: Brainy
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.Collection: Time
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.Collection: Health
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.Collection: Dreams
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.Collection: Dreams
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.Collection: Knowledge
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.Collection: Experience
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.Collection: Men
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.Collection: Brainy
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Truth
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.Collection: Men
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.Collection: Knowledge
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.Collection: Government
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.Collection: Great
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.Collection: Truth
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Men
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.Collection: Strength
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Freedom
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.Collection: Change
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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 of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.Collection: Independent
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.Collection: Second Amendment
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.Collection: Discipline
Who lies for you will lie against you.Collection: Truth
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.Collection: Freedom
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.Collection: Law
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from othersCollection: Liberty
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.Collection: Wisdom