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John Locke greatly influenced the founders of the United States with his emphasis of individual rights and property rights.John Locke = influential English philosopher of the Enlightenment (1632-1704)
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What I can't figure out is why they wanted Demosthenes before Locke. (source)Locke = pseudonym adopted by Peter Wiggins (protagonist in this novel) based upon a prominent 17th century English philosopher, John Locke, who supported democratic governance and individual freedoms
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The first was the Englishman John Locke, who lived from 1632 to 1704.† (source)
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John Locke, on the other hand, would argue that once the dining room's doors were opened, after a brief moment of confusion the better natures of the forty-six men would prevail, and their predisposition to reason would lead them to a fair and orderly process of seat taking.† (source)
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"He could have," he declared, "demolished Newton, Calvin or even John Locke as a logician."† (source)
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John Locke, from whom Adams, Jefferson, and other American patriots drew inspiration, had published some of his earliest works while a political refugee in Amsterdam.† (source)
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"One thing hasn't changed," Ser Mallador Locke insisted.† (source)
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The place later got razed to build Locke High School.† (source)
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His books stood neatly along the glassed-in shelves of four vaultlike oak bookcases: the collected Shakespeare, Jefferson's essays, Thoreau, Paine, Rousseau, Crevecoeur, Locke, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Dickens, Tolstoy.† (source)
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Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.† (source)
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I was tall and lanky, which Locke said was the ideal build for a long-distance runner.† (source)
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Kant, Voltaire, Locke ...what's so dangerous about them?† (source)
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He remembered Locke's statement that no object, scientific or otherwise, is knowable except in terms of its qualities.† (source)
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The rights of labor still were closely associated in the fashion of Locke and Jefferson with the right of the laborer to retain his own product; when men talked about the sacredness of labor, they were often talking in veiled terms about the right to own.† (source)
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So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight.† (source)
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It was true; he was for the most part happy; he had his wife; he had his children; he had promised in six weeks' time to talk "some nonsense" to the young men of Cardiff about Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and the causes of the French Revolution.† (source)
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