The great question which in all ages has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Locke (1632–1704), British philosopher. Two Treatises of Government, bk. 1, ch. 11, sect. 106, p. 218, ed. Peter Laslett, Cambridge University Press (1988).
