Locke, John

"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

"The true secret of instruction is to work by affection, not by the rod."

"No one is born learned; all knowledge is acquired."

"Idleness is the holiday of fools."

"The basis of all virtue is good-will and love."

"To be content with what one has is to be rich."

"As far as knowledge reaches, sense and imagination reach not."

"The great principle is to preserve liberty, not to destroy it."

"All cruelty springs from cowardice."

"The understanding of ourselves is the first principle of wisdom."

"Where there is charity, there is peace."

"The remedy for a disordered mind is a discipline of the body."

"To do one's duty is the grandest lesson of life."

"Knowledge without virtue is worse than ignorance."

"The mind of man is like a wax tablet, ready to receive all impressions."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it."

"Where there is no property there is no injustice."

"Freedom then is not what Sir Robert Filmer tells us...a liberty for everyone to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws."

"Covetousness, ambition, revenge are rooted in the human heart."

"The necessity of pursuing happiness is the foundation of liberty."

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

"Children are born ignorant of all things, like a blank slate waiting to be written upon."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the temptation of those in power to use it."

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

"The improvement of the mind as well as the body is necessary for the constitution of society."

"Curiosity is but hollowness; reading without purpose is sauntering, not progress."

"The most necessary and fundamental virtue is courage."

"Whoever is found to advocate the dissolution of government, let him be considered as an enemy to mankind."

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge, but too much wondering without thought leads nowhere."