John Locke — "I have always thought that there is a good deal of cant in the common talk about…"

"All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leav…"

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

"He that knows any thing, knows that he knows not all things."

"No government can have a right to obedience from a people who have not freely consented to it."

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule."