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[T]he labourers have a right to subsistence out of the land, in all…
Quote byWilliam Cobbett · 1763–1835
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Legacy to Labourers: Or, What is the Right which the Lords, Baronets, and Squires, Have to the Lands of England? (1835), p. 140.
English (original)
[T]he labourers have a right to subsistence out of the land, in all cases of inability to labour; that all those who are able to labour have a right to subsistence out of the land, in exchange for their labour; and that, if the holders of the land will not give them subsistence, in exchange for their labour, they have a right to the land itself.
— William Cobbett
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