| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36631 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Locke (1632–1704), British philosopher. Two Treatises of Government, bk. 2, ch. 6, sect. 57, p. 305, ed. Peter Laslett, Cambridge University Press (1988). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Locke Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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