Commonwealth Quote by Thomas Hobbes

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

— Georges Bataille

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime…

— Blaise Pascal

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the…

— Immanuel Kant

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the…

— Immanuel Kant

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are…

— William Petty

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him…

— John Ramsay McCulloch

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a…

— David Hume

He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of…

— John Stuart Mill

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of…

— Victor Cousin

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than…

— Edmund Ruffin