Quotes from John Locke

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 law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, a white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

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

Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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

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 law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.