English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
His argument that government depends on the consent of the governed — and that people may overthrow tyrants who lose it — helped ignite the American Revolution and became the backbone of modern liberal democracy.
Locke came of age during England's convulsions: civil war, regicide, restoration, revolution. He spent fifteen years at Oxford in medicine and natural philosophy, then attached himself to Lord Shaftesbury, a lightning rod in Restoration politics. When Shaftesbury fell and died, Locke fled to the Netherlands for five years, where he wrote his major works. He returned in 1689 with Queen Mary II and published anonymously: A Letter Concerning Toleration argued religion was private and churches voluntary, severing faith from state power; Two Treatises of Government laid out consent-based rule and t…
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This life affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of having done well, and the hopes of another life.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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