Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion dem , s at least the profession of good faith.
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