Locke, John (John Locke)

The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
-- John Locke

Reason teaches all mankind that no one ought to harm another in his life, liberty, or possessions.
-- John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
-- John Locke

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 vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.
-- John Locke

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

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in the possession of truth.

-- John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any reason but because they are not already common.

-- John Locke

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