“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”

—  John Locke, book Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Ch. VI, sec. 57
Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Context: 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 laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.

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