The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the fourth choice "John Locke"
Thomas Jefferson used the thoughts first penned by John Locke<span> while writing the Declaration of Independence. The phrase "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," was an idea first considered by </span>Locke<span> in his Two Treatises on Government.</span>
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