Thomas Jefferson Quote

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state


The writings of Thomas Jefferson (ed. 1905)


Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to...

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to...

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to...

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to...