John Locke Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

  John Locke

  Self Esteem, Philosophical, Men

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.289, CUP Archive

• 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

• Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

  John Locke

  Mistake, Thinking, Hands

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.400, Cambridge University Press

• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Government, Ends

  1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

  John Locke

  Men, Reason Why, Preservation

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.377

• If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

  John Locke

  Government, Law, People

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.311

• Where there is no property there is no injustice.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Justice, Injustice

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

• There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Men, People, Liberty

• ..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)

• As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

  John Locke

  Men, Land, Doe

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.

  John Locke

  Men, Should Have, People

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.80, Courier Corporation

• For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Law

  John Locke (1751). “Works”, p.207

• And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

  John Locke

  Community, Design, Liberty

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.77, Prometheus Books

• When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

  John Locke

  Degrees, Doe, Should

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