What worries you, masters you.

Quote by John Locke

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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what...

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction...

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction...

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find...

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find...

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to,...

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to,...

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they...

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they...

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that...

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that...

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

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

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for...

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for...

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting...

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting...

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these...

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these...

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a...

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a...

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge...

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge...

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for...

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for...

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character,...

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character,...

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his...

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his...