“ Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
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| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | society skill |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
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“means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the
acquisitions of their parents, to the nourishment and improvement of their
offspring, to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever
each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right
to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which
society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.
In this partnership all men have equal rights, but not to equal things. He
that has but five shillings in the partnership has as good a right to it as
he that has five hundred pounds has to his larger proportion.”
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