It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Category Archive: John Locke
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
What worries you, masters you.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.