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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

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When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. – Vladimir Lenin

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. – Rosa Luxemburg

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