The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
— Some Thoughts Concerning Education
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
Where this quote comes from
Locke wrote this in the Second Treatise of Government, in the chapter on paternal power. He argues that law, properly understood, guides free and intelligent people toward their own interest. In every state of created beings capable of laws, he continues, where there is no law there is no freedom, because freedom means being safe from the arbitrary will of others.
Source: Two Treatises of Government (1689), Second Treatise, Chapter VI, section 57
Also quoted as
- “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.”
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