Quote#Wisdom
I think it will be conceded by every candid and right-thinking mind,…
Quote byEdward John Eyre · 1815–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840–1 (1845), Vol. 2, pt. 2, ch. 1, p. 158.
English (original)
I think it will be conceded by every candid and right-thinking mind, that no one can justly take that which is not his own, without giving some equivalent in return, or deprive a people of their ordinary means of support, and not provide them with any other instead. Yet such is exactly the position we are in with regard to the inhabitants of Australia.
— Edward John Eyre
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