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Quotation by John Locke
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1690)An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ed. P. Nidditch, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1975)An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ed. Peter H. Nidditch, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1979)Essay Concerning Human Understanding, book II, ch. i, sect. 19; ed. from the 4th edition by Peter H. Nidditch Oxford University Press (1975)Essay Concerning Human Understanding vol. II Dover (1959).
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.
John Locke (1632–1704), British philosopher. Two Treatises of Government, bk. 2, ch. 6, sect. 57, p. 305, ed. Peter Laslett, Cambridge University Press (1988).
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