On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the other, and from the whole.
Said by
Thomas Paine
Source
gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid…”
Editor's note · Context
Paine illustrates in "Rights of Man" how various occupations within a society mutually support each other, contributing to collective prosperity.
Share
More from Thomas Paine
Jan 1, 1791
The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.
Jan 1, 1791
The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.
Jan 1, 1791
The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.