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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. - J

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. – 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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Knowledge
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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. – John Locke

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Health
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When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy

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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison

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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. – Alan Keyes

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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. – John Maynard Keynes

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