Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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.
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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 legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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.
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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