The fundamental source of all your errors,
sophisms and false reasonings is
a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind.
Were you once to become acquainted with these,
you could never entertain a thought,
that all men are not, by nature,
entitled to a parity of privileges.
You would be convinced, that natural liberty is
a gift of the beneficent Creator to
the whole human race, and
that civil liberty is founded in that; and
cannot be wrested from any people,
without the most manifest violation of justice.
-- Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804)
Source: The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
Monday, March 07, 2016
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