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[I]t is nevertheless proper to make men aware that the price they pay…

Quote byThomas Hodgskin · 1787–1869

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 157.

English (original)

[I]t is nevertheless proper to make men aware that the price they pay for attempting to uphold the artificial right of property, is nothing less than the enormous sum of misery inflicted in the name of law and government.

— Thomas Hodgskin

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