"Second Treatise of Government" Quotes
John Locke argues for the natural rights of life, liberty, and property in his influential work on political philosophy.
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Quotes
Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.
The people shall be judge; for the law is but the will of the people.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
The acts of the government are the acts of the people.
The business of the law is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of every man’s goods and person.
The end of punishment is not revenge, but restraint.
The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.
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 erected in it.
