Liberty Quotes by John Locke

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

— John Locke

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

— John Locke

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we…

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his…

— John Locke

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

— John Locke

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his…

— John Locke

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their…

— John Locke

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may…

— John Locke

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and…

— John Locke

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some…

— John Locke

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and…

— John Locke

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary…

— John Locke

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property…

— John Locke

Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp…

— John Locke

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they…

— John Locke

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from…

— John Locke

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,…

— John Locke

“A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant,…

— John Locke

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to…

— John Locke