Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- Topic: Action, Thinking
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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