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| John Locke by Herman Verelst unknown date |
1. "All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." – Two Treatises of Government
2. "The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone." – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
3. "Where there is no law, there is no freedom." – Two Treatises of Government
4. "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
5. "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." – A Letter to Anthony Collins
6. "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him." – Some Thoughts Concerning Education
7. "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
8. "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." – Two Treatises of Government
9. "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." – Some Thoughts Concerning Education
10. "We are born free, as we are born rational." – Two Treatises of Government
11. "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself." – Two Treatises of Government
12. "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." – Conduct of the Understanding
13. "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
14. "The discipline of desire is the background of character." – Some Thoughts Concerning Education
15. "He that will not set himself resolutely to study, let him go home and entertain himself with the thoughts of his poverty or weakness; but let him not go to school." – Some Thoughts Concerning Education
16. "Tis a common observation that in those countries where the soil is most fertile, the inhabitants are most idle and luxurious." – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
17. "The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others." – Some Thoughts Concerning Education
18. "The business of education is not to make a scholar, but to make a man." – Some Thoughts Concerning Education
19. "Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent." – Two Treatises of Government
20. "Truth seldom has received, nor does it often receive, much assistance from the power of great men to whom it is not always welcome." – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding