There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John LockeWords, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
John LockeMan is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
John LockeFirmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
John Locke