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
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