Sparks Commentary

“This book contains all the malice, and revenge, and treason, that mankind can be guilty of: It fixes the sole power in the parliament and t...

John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” is one of the greatest political works ever written. It had a massive influence on the founding d...

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...

“My intention here is not to exclude the consent of the people from being one just foundation of government where it has place. It is sur...

“Bills of attainder, ex-post-facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the socia...

The English   philosopher   John Locke was a vocal advocate of private property, and gave an eloquent defense of it in his "Second T...

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them wi...

"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But mod...

"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of War, where every man is Enemy to every man ; the same is consequent to the time, whe...