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“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.” -Locke

Perfectly concise. The violations of natural law is tyranny. Tyranny does not have to be from a despotic government. You can be tyrannized by your neighbor if he violates the laws that protect you both. Brilliant.

“But conquest is as far from setting up any government as demolishing a house is from building a new one in its place. Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame of a commonwealth by destroying the former but without the consent of the people, can never erect a new one.”

So far Locke has been one of my favorite philosophers to read. It is absolutely fascinating to see how the birth of liberalism and liberal ideas stem from Christianity and the idea that God created a natural law in which man is born free.

Finished Locke's 2nd Essay on Government. When a government stops protecting your freedom and your property, they stop being your government, and you are entitled to resist.

It is the duty of the civil magistrates, by the impartial execution of equal laws, to secure unto all the people in general and to every one of his subjects in particular the just possession if these things belonging to life.

If the Gospel and the apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

The business of true religion is to the regulating of men's lives, according to the rules of virtue and piety.

Let anyone have never so true a claim to all these things, yet if he be destitute of charity, meekness, and good-will in general towards all mankind, even those that are not Christians, he is certainly yet short of being a true Christian himself.