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For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced of the contrary.
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No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
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Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war
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Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm