John Locke

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

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

“What worries you, masters you.”

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

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

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

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

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

“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.”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”

“The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty.”

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”

“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”

“Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished?”

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”