{"id":426,"date":"2009-10-17T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-10-17T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:45:24","slug":"john-locke-law-preserves-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"John Locke: Law Preserves Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Locke\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6c\/John_Locke_by_Herman_Verelst.jpg\/200px-John_Locke_by_Herman_Verelst.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a> &quot;The end of the law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom.&#160; For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is&#160; no law, there is no freedom.&#160; For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be where there is no law.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Locke\" target=\"_blank\">John Locke<\/a>, English physician and philosopher.&#160; Quoted by John Harmer in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-We-Must-Win\/dp\/1570086494\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255826527&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">A War We Must Win<\/a><\/i>, Bookcraft 1999, pp. 124-125.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6e06a176-2ad0-4aeb-91e8-b0fb9c5af6f8\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Law\" rel=\"tag\">Law<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Liberty\" rel=\"tag\">Liberty<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The end of the law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom.&#160; For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is&#160; no law, there is no freedom.&#160; For liberty is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,84,32],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-freedom","tag-law","tag-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}