| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1788 - 738 pages
...a fmall quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other moveables. Would Mr. Nedham be refponfible, that if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority,...nine millions who have no property would not think of ufurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is, furely, a right of mankind... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1788 - 738 pages
...a fmall quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other moveables. Would Mr. Nedham be refponfible, that if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority,...nine millions who have no property would not think of ufurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is, furely, a right of mankind... | |
| John Adams - Constitutional history - 1794 - 584 pages
...a fmall quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other moveables. Would Mr. Nedham be rcfponfible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority,...millions who have no property, would not think of ufurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have ? Property is furely a right of mankind... | |
| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - Presidents - 1851 - 566 pages
...property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote...over the rights of the one or two millions who have ? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit,... | |
| Paul Woodruff - Philosophy - 2006 - 304 pages
...property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote...over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, attacking... | |
| Martin Bronfenbrenner - Business & Economics - 1971 - 506 pages
...not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property. Would [you] be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote...over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor... | |
| Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly - History - 2006 - 942 pages
...for just that reason. As Adams put it, Suppose a nation, rich and poor. . . all assembled together If all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, [would not] the eight or nine millions who have no property. . . think of usurping over the rights... | |
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