1. Who Said It? (or would have said it)
Get out a piece of paper, your Absolute Monarch Chart, your Scientific Revolution People chart, and your Enlightenment People chart.
You’re going to see several quotes. Several of them are actual quotes - several of them are things that could have been quotes.
Your job is to figure out who would have said them.

2. 1. Life without government (laws) is:
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Hint: from Leviathan

3. Hint: From Two Treatises of Government
2. Government exists to preserve “life, liberty, and property,” and if it does not do this, then the people have a right to rebel and “provide for their safety…[by forming] a new legislature.”
Hint: From Two Treatises of Government

4. Hint: from The Spirit of Laws
3. “When the legislature and the executive power are united in the same person…there is no liberty.”
Hint: from The Spirit of Laws

5. 4. “man is born free,” but is “everywhere in chains.”
“government is a contract between people and the rulers”
Hint: from The Social Contract

6. 5. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

7. Hint: from The Spirit of Laws
6. “Again, there is no liberty if the power of judging [is] not separated from the legislative and the executive.”
Hint: from The Spirit of Laws

8. 7. People should be sovereign (rule) because they are generally good.
Hint: From Two Treatises of Government

9. 8. “L’etat c’est moi”
(I am the government.)

10. 9. “I agree with the last guy’s quote
9. “I agree with the last guy’s quote. The best form of government is an absolute monarch - but I don’t like divine right - that’s not reasonable.”

11. 10. “From now on our country will be westernized
10. “From now on our country will be westernized. No nobles will wear beards.”

12. 11. “I’m sure that the earth goes around the sun, but I guess I better keep it to myself so the Church won’t get mad.”

13. 12. “Ouch! That apple hurt! Hey - that makes me wonder….”

14. 13. “The church and the state should be separate so that people can have freedom of religion.”

15. 14. “The best form of government is one where power is shared by different branches.”

16. 15. “OK, Pope, whatever you say. I take it all back
15. “OK, Pope, whatever you say. I take it all back. My telescope must have lied to me.”

17. 16. “Stop it, you fool! If you try to drain out his bad leg blood he’ll end up losing all his blood!”

18. 17. “Whoa. I’m getting dizzy
17. “Whoa! I’m getting dizzy! I can’t believe some folks don’t believe me that the planets are in motion.”

19. 18. “The 30 Years war messed up my country
18. “The 30 Years war messed up my country. We need a strong military to protect us now.”

20. How do
You
think
You Did?

21. 1. Life without government (laws) is:
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Hint: from Leviathan

22. Hobbes

23. Hint: From Two Treatises of Government
2. Government exists to preserve “life, liberty, and property,” and if it does not do this, then the people have a right to rebel and “provide for their safety…[by forming] a new legislature.”
Hint: From Two Treatises of Government

24. Locke

25. Hint: from The Spirit of Laws
3. “When the legislature and the executive power are united in the same person…there is no liberty.”
Hint: from The Spirit of Laws

26. Montesquieu

27. 4. “man is born free,” but is “everywhere in chains.”
“government is a contract between people and the rulers”
Hint: from The Social Contract

28. Rousseau

29. 5. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

30. Voltaire

31. Hint: from The Spirit of Laws
6. “Again, there is no liberty if the power of judging [is] not separated from the legislative and the executive.”
Hint: from The Spirit of Laws

32. Montesquieu

33. 7. People should be sovereign (rule) because they are generally good.
Hint: From Two Treatises of Government

34. Locke

35. 8. “L’etat c’est moi”
(I am the government.)

36. Louis XIV

37. 9. “I agree with the last guy’s quote
9. “I agree with the last guy’s quote. The best form of government is an absolute monarch - but I don’t like divine right - that’s not reasonable.”

38. Hobbes

39. 10. “From now on our country will be westernized
10. “From now on our country will be westernized. No nobles will wear beards.”

40. Peter the Great

41. 11. “I’m sure that the earth goes around the sun, but I guess I better keep it to myself so the Church won’t get mad.”

42. Copernicus

43. 12. “Ouch! That apple hurt! Hey - that makes me wonder….”

44. Newton

45. 13. “The church and the state should be separate so that people can have freedom of religion.”

46. Voltaire

47. 14. “The best form of government is one where power is shared by different branches.”

48. Montesquieu

49. 15. “OK, Pope, whatever you say. I take it all back
15. “OK, Pope, whatever you say. I take it all back. My telescope must have lied to me.”

50. Galileo

51. 16. “Stop it, you fool! If you try to drain out his bad leg blood he’ll end up losing all his blood!”

52. Harvey

53. 17. “Whoa. I’m getting dizzy
17. “Whoa! I’m getting dizzy! I can’t believe some folks don’t believe me that the planets are in motion.”

54. Kepler

55. 18. “The 30 Years war messed up my country
18. “The 30 Years war messed up my country. We need a strong military to protect us now.”

56. Frederick the Great

57. How many did you get right?
Wasn’t that Fun?
How many did you get right?