"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
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"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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"The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands."
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"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
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"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it."
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"How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?"
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"No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms."
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"The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings."
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"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."
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"The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it."
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"The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings."
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"It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties."
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"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing."
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"He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son."
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"When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success."
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"All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues."
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"What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?"
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
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"Where there is no desire, there will be no industry."
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"The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny."
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