As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage. When the governor, however intitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule; and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion. John Locke
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  1. We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
  2. For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...
  3. 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.
  4. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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