James Fenimore Cooper Quote

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.


The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America (ed. 1838)


If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if...

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if...

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if...

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if...