In all this process, which in its fundamental elements affects to consider only population, upon a principle of natural right, there is a manifest attention to property,--which, however just and reasonable on other schemes, is on theirs perfectly unsupportable.
From his critique of the French Revolution, on the contradiction between the revolutionaries' stated principles of natural right and their actual attention to property.
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