Locke

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    Were it not for the corruption and viciousness of degenerate men, there would be no ... necessity that men should separate from this great and natural community, and by positive agreements combine into smaller and divided associations.
    —John Locke (1632–1704)

    New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
    —John Locke (1632–1704)

    What greater light can be hoped for in the moral sciences? The subject part of mankind in most places might, instead thereof, with Egyptian bondage expect Egyptian darkness, were not the candle of the Lord set up by himself in men’s minds, which it is impossible for the breath or power of man wholly to extinguish.
    —John Locke (1632–1704)