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The Law, by Bastiat
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“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

--- Samuel Adams


Lesson 63 - Inalienable Rights of Man Print E-mail

 

Each man has a right to consume what he owns. 

He does not have a right to consume what is owned by someone else.  The only way that he can sustain his life (which he has a right to do) is by consuming his own propety.

It further follows that:

Each man has a right NOT to consume. 

This means only that a man may not only consume whatever he owns, but he may consume it whenever it pleases him to do so.

To refrain from consuming is only to postpone the ultimate decision over a property.  Another word for it is saving.  A man has a right to save what he owns.

This means further that:

 



 
 

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