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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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MORAL PRINCIPLES / RIGHT TO PROPERTY



A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings; that no one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 24 April 1816