Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom...

All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond experience. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)

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.

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.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

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.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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

Nobody is going to let anybody’s children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no way.

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; a liberty to follow my...

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided

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

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

We just want to show the people of this town what the benefits are.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless...

Our Savior’s great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases...

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...

When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.

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

Man… hath by nature a power …. to preserve his property – that is, his life, liberty, and estate – against the injuries and attempts of other men.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had...