Right to Opine

To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.

— Thomas Jefferson in a prospectus for his translation of Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy

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