John Locke Quotes About Freedom And Liberty

Quotes about: Freedom And Liberty

• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

• Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

  John Locke

  Freedom, War, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

• Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

  John Locke

  Law, Ends, Tyranny

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 18, sec. 202 (1690)

• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Government, Libertarian Party, People

• ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 9, sec. 124 (1690)

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