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John Locke Quotes
English philosopher John Locke (1632—1704) is remembered as the father of empiricism and as one of the earliest champions of the idea that all people enjoy certain natural rights. In areas including government, education, and religion, John Locke quotes helped inspire momentous events like the Age of Enlightenment and England’s Glorious Revolution, as well as the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War, and Constitution of the United States.
John Locke on Government and Politics
“Government has no other end than the preservation of property.”
“… tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right …”
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
“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.”
“As if when men, quitting the state of Nature, entered into societ
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John Locke on “perfect freedom” in the state of nature (1689)
TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty.
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John Locke > Quotes
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― John Philosopher
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― John Philosopher, Two Treatises of Command and A Letter About Toleration
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