History & Political Science
QuestionBut when the words Free, and Liberty, are applied to anything but bodies, they are abused; for that which is not subject to motion, is not subject to impediment.SummaryThis...
QuestionBut, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,...
QuestionFor all men are by nature provided of notable multiplying glasses (that is their passions and self-love) through which every little payment [appears as a] great grievance; ...
QuestionFor I ask whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America left to Nature, without any improvement, tillage or husbandry, a thousand acres will yield the needy a...
QuestionFor this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as goo...
QuestionI am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in full sense of the word, as a wife is.S...
QuestionI conclude all these forms of government are pestilential: the three good ones do not last long, and the three bad ones are evil. Those who know how to construct cons...
Question…I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be Political Power. That the power of a Magistrate over a Subject, may be distinguished from that of a Fathe...
Question“… if I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and...
QuestionIt is true that labour produces for the rich wondrous things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels....
QuestionLet us summarize the entire balance sheet so that the credits and debits are easily compared. What man loses through the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlim...
QuestionModern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and exchange, is li...