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Whoever accumulates beyond what their own hands produce owes part of it back to society
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
What Thomas Paine actually said
- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes, on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.
Where this was said
↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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