On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
You order him to buy the right which you before told him Nature had given to him gratuitously at his birth, and of which no authority on earth could lawfully deprive him.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You order him to buy the right which you before told him Nature had given to him gratuitously at his birth, and of which…”
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From his critique of the French Revolution, on the contradiction of requiring property qualifications for rights supposedly given by nature.
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