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He that will impartially survey the Nations of the World, will find so much of the Governments, Religion, and Manners brought in and continued amongst them by these means, that they will have but little Reverence for the Practices which are in use and credit amongst Men.

— John Locke Two Treatises of Government (1689)

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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

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

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Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature.

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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.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

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