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Quotation from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
“yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself”
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. V, §27
The foundation of Locke's labour theory of property.
Citation: "yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself" — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Ch. V, §27. (id second-treatise-of-government-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
