
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
Dryden
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)
1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
Second Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)
Source: The Law (1850)
Context: Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 19, n. 7
Undated
“No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Final accounting in the Estate of A.B. (1866) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/no_mans_life_liberty_or_property_are_safe_while_the_legislature_is_in_sessi/