
Letter to http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html James Madison (28 October 1785)
1780s
Arthur Young (1789), quoted in: Samuel Laing (1842), Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy and Other Parts of Europe During the Present Century, p. 35
According to Samuel Laing, Arthur Young wrote this "consequently before the sale of the national domains, crown and church estates, and confiscated estates of the noblesse, and before the law of partition of property among all the children became obligatory on all classes of the community... and a few mouths only before a law was passed directly opposed to the principle he recommends — the law abolishing the rights of primogeniture, and making the division of property among all the children obligatory; and which law has been ever since, that is, for nearly half a century, in general and uninterrupted operation."
Letter to http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html James Madison (28 October 1785)
1780s
§ 2
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1766)
Context: The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.
“A democratic country has zero tolerance for all illegal monitoring operations.”
Jiang Yi-huah (2013) cited in " Jiang defends Cabinet ahead of poll http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/10/15/391346/Jiang-defends.htm" on The China Post, 15 October 2013
Military Instructions (1747), Article II: Of the Subsistence of Troops, and of Provisions http://www.sonshi.com/frederickthegreat1-2.html
“The Laws ought to be so framed, as to secure the Safety of every Citizen as much as possible.”
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768), Item 33
Alan Greenspan (2004) The critical role of education in the nation's economy.
2000s
1920s, The Reign of Law (1925)