"[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them."
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"Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?"
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"The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others."
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"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."
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"All wealth is the product of labor."
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
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"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 people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government."
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"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
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"The picture of a shadow is a positive thing."
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"But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression"
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"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others"
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"Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have."
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"Where there is no law there is no freedom."
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"Don't tell me what I can't do!"
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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
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"Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds."
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"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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