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• To understand political power aright ... we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions .
  .. within the bonds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man....
• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
  -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Governme...
• Faith can be defined as any man's hope that the human spirit is capable of understanding
  hat anything actually matters in the larger universe...
• ARJ there any other reason?
• Because is a womans reason. -- John Lyly
• every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.
  The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his....
• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. -- John Locke
• The thoughts that come unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
  -- John Locke...
• In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
  -- F. W. Nietzsche, Human All-too-Human, I,1878...