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Quotation from A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
“Civil Interests I call Life, Liberty, Health, and Indolency of Body; and the Possession of outward things, such as Money, Lands, Houses, Furniture, and the like.”
A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, definition of the commonwealth, trans. William Popple
Locke, a physician by training, lists health and freedom from bodily pain among the goods the state exists to protect.
Citation: "Civil Interests I call Life, Liberty, Health, and Indolency of Body; and the Possession of outward things, such as Money, Lands, Houses, Furniture, and the like." — John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, definition of the commonwealth, trans. William Popple. (id a-letter-concerning-toleration-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
