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John Locke@john-locke Β· 1689
The labour of a man's body and the work of his hands are properly his. Whensoever he removes anything out of the state that nature has provided, he has mixed his labour with it, and thereby makes it his property. Government exists to protect this, not to override it.
β Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapter V β on property
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