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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their 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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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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All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. – John Locke

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Dont buy the house, buy the neighborhood. – Proverb

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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. – Collis P. Huntingdon

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If a man owns land, the land owns him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends – the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. – Andrew Carnegie

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