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Quote of the Day – December 29, 2010

by FSM: QUOTE OF THE DAY December 29, 2010
 
“For since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that, which every one designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making, whenever the legislators endeavour 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 form any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.
 
Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power, the people had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have the right to resume their original liberty and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide of their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.”
 
John Locke (1632 – 1704), English philosopher and physician, from his book “Two Treaties Of Civil Government” written in 1689.
 
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