People Quotes by John Locke

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

— John Locke

Revolt is the right of the people

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such…

— John Locke

No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority 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

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

— John Locke

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than…

— John Locke

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of…

— John Locke

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they…

— John Locke

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as…

— John Locke

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the…

— John Locke

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will…

— 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

How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have…

— John Locke