 The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1731856Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Johnson Field, United States. Supreme Court, Joseph P. Bradley, Noah Haynes Swayne - 1873 - 60 pages
...inalienable right of humanity." *" The property which every man has in his own labor," says Adam Smith, " as it is the original foundation of all other property,...is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...; and in general I know of no country in Europe in which corporation laws are so little oppressive. The property which every man has in his own labour,...dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 556 pages
...is LABOUR. And this Labour is, of course, a subject of Property, like anything else. Smith says—" The Property which every man has in his own labour,...lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands." Hence we see that Smith expressly admits labour to be a saleable property by itself, quite independent... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 574 pages
...And is this from their utility ? It manifestly arises from the taste of the public. Smith says — "The property which every man has in his own labour,...property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable " : a sentiment in which every one must agree. And what is literary and scientific work ? It is pure... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1896 - 568 pages
...oppressions of the corporation laws. " The property which every man has in his labour," he says, " as it is the original foundation of all other property,...is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to hinder him from employing this... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 1877 - 408 pages
...labour. I am not going to be communistic, and I have no will to be revolutionary. Adam Smith says, ' The property which every man has in his own labour,...dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in 'what' manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbour, is... | |
 | Thomas Briggs (of Richmond, Surrey.) - 1877 - 276 pages
...work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament. and he always consults his dignity by doing it." " The property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so is it the most sacred and inviolable." — CHARLES TENNANT. "The sentence pronounced on man in the... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1878 - 200 pages
...of all the inhabitants or members of the society, under the title of fixed Capital, and he says, ' The Property which every man has in his own Labour,...lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands.' Ricardo designates Labour as a Commodity. So Huskisson said, ' Labour is the poor man's Capital,' meaning... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence. " The properly which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." 4 " This was the most metaphorical speech which Thomas of Gilsland was ever known to utter, the rather,... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence. " The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." 4 " This was the most metaphorical speech which Thomas of Gilsland was ever known to utter, the rather,... | |
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