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Quotation from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
“But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people”
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XIX, §225
Locke argues that people tolerate many mistakes and rise only against a visible design of tyranny; the phrase reappears in the Declaration of Independence.
Citation: "But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people" — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XIX, §225. (id second-treatise-of-government-q12)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
