Thomas Hodgskin: Government

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“[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

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 157

“The natural right of property far from being protected, is systematically violated, and both government and law seem to exist chiefly or solely, in order to protect and organize the most efficacious means of protecting the violation….”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 53

“Among the legislative classes embodied into, and constituting the government, we must place the landed aristocracy. In fact, the landed aristocracy and the government are one—the latter being nothing more than the organized means of preserving the power and privileges of the former.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 51

“Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 179

“[T]he real business of men, what promotes their prosperity, is always better done by themselves than by any few separate and distinct individuals, acting as a government in the name of the whole.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 292, Vol. 1