In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.


PART IV, SECTION II. - An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

Adam Ferguson Quotes

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.