Answer these two questions for each quote.

What do you believe to be the main idea of this quote?

Do you think this philosopher believes that men are good natured or cruel
natured? Why?
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
for no man, or society of men, having a power to deliver up their preservation
(safety), or consequently the means of it, to the absolute will(power) and
arbitrary dominion of(power over) another; whenever any one shall go about to
bring them into such a slavish condition(a slave), they will always have a right to
preserve(protect) what they have not a power to part with; and to rid themselves
of those who invade this fundamental(important), sacred, and
unalterable(unchangeable) law of self-preservation(self rule), for which they
entered into society. And thus the community(people) may be said in this respect
to be always the supreme(the most) power
Baron De Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws
When the legislative(law making) and executive(law enforcing) powers are
united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates(officials), there can
be no liberty(freedom); because apprehensions(dangers) may arise, lest(unless)
the same monarch or senate should enact(put in place) tyrannical(cruel) laws, to
execute(enforce) them in a tyrannical(cruel) manner.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Hereby it is manifest(clear) that, during the time men live without a common
power to keep them all in awe(check), they are in that condition which is called
war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract
What man loses by the social contract is his natural(unrestricted)
liberty(freedom) and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds
in getting; what he gains is civil liberty(liberty bound by laws) and the
proprietorship(ownership) of all he possesses.