submission to government be every one's duty, - John Locke

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submission to government be every one's duty,

John Locke

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John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an influential English philosopher and social contract theorist. He developed an alternative to the Hobbesian state of nature and asserted a government could be good only if it received the consent of the governed and protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. If such a consent was not achieved, Locke argued in favour of a right of rebellion, which he referred to as an "appeal to heaven".

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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

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.

Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.