John Locke — "The end of government is the good of mankind."

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fan…"

"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world."

"The mind receives a great variety of impressions, and is capable of an infinite variety of thoughts."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one…"

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."