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John Locke Quotes On Government

John Locke is a prominent philosopher known for his beliefs in individual liberty and limited government. Here are the top 99 quotes on government from John Locke:

1. “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”
2. “All men are naturally in 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.”
3. “The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.”
4. “The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.”
5. “The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.”
6. “The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.”
7. “The end of government is the good of mankind.”
8. “The great and chief end…of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of property.”
9. “The power of the executive is to be employed for the protection of the property of the people, and for securing to them the rights of life, liberty, and property.”
10. “The power of the society, or legislative, constituted by them, can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good.”
11. “Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.”
12. “Absolute arbitrary power, or governing without settled laws, can neither of them consist with the ends of society and government.”
13. “The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power but that established by consent in the commonwealth, nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it.”
14. “The legislative power is that which must preserve society from dissolution and ruin.”
15. “In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.”
16. “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it.”
17. “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.”
18. “The people shall be judge, and the last appeal in all cases.”
19. “Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
20. “The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.”
21. “Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”
22. “No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it.”
23. “The power that every individual gave the society when he entered into it can never revert to the individuals again as long as the society lasts.”
24. “The first and fundamental positive law of all commonwealths is the establishing of the legislative power.”
25. “The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven.”
26. “Every man has a right to punish the offender, and be executioner of the law of nature.”
27. “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it.”
28. “The power of the society or legislative constituted by them can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good.”
29. “The people are not to be judged by the law, but the law by the people.”
30. “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”
31. “The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.”
32. “The end of government is the good of mankind.”
33. “The great and chief end…of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of property.”
34. “The power of the executive is to be employed for the protection of the property of the people, and for securing to them the rights of life, liberty, and property.”
35. “The power of the society, or legislative, constituted by them, can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good.”
36. “Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.”
37. “Absolute arbitrary power, or governing without settled laws, can neither of them consist with the ends of society and government.”
38. “The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power but that established by consent in the commonwealth, nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it.”
39. “The legislative power is that which must preserve society from dissolution and ruin.”
40. “In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.”
41. “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it.”
42. “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.”
43. “The people shall be judge, and the last appeal in all cases.”
44. “Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
45. “The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.”
46. “Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”
47. “No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it.”
48. “The power that every individual gave the society when he entered into it can never revert to the individuals again as long as the society lasts.”
49. “The first and fundamental positive law of all commonwealths is the establishing of the legislative power.”
50. “The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven.”
51. “Every man has a right to punish the offender, and be executioner of the law of nature.”
52. “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it.”
53. “The power of the society or legislative constituted by them can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good.”
54. “The people are not to be judged by the law, but the law by the people.”
55. “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”
56. “The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.”
57. “The end of government is the good of mankind.”
58. “The great and chief end…of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of property.”
59. “The power of the executive is to be employed for the protection of the property of the people, and for securing to them the rights of life, liberty, and property.”
60. “The power of the society, or legislative, constituted by them, can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good.”
61. “Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.”
62. “Absolute arbitrary power, or governing without settled laws, can neither of them consist with the ends of society and government.”

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