John Locke on Freedom
Browse 6 quotations attributed to John Locke, catalogued under freedom, with dates where available.
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Attributed to John Locke, entry #152871: "Locke on Property: A Bibliographical Essay" by Karen Vaughn at The Online Library of Liberty"
Attributed to John Locke, entry #13208: "Two Treatises of Government, ed. Thomas Hollis at The Online Library of Liberty"
6 Quotes by John Locke on Freedom
"Locke on Property: A Bibliographical Essay" by Karen Vaughn at The Online Library of Liberty"
"Two Treatises of Government, ed. Thomas Hollis at The Online Library of Liberty"
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom."
"To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate 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."
"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; a Liberty to follow my own Will in all things, where the Rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, Arbitrary Will of another Man: as Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature."
"This freedom from absolute, arbitrary power, is so necessary to, and closely joined with a man's preservation, that he cannot part with it, but by what forfeits his preservation and life together: for a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another, to take away his life, when he pleases."