Thomas Jefferson Quote

Whenever there is 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.


letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785


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