Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 257 of William Leggett’s December 31st, 1836, Plaindealer essay, “The Inequality of Human Condition,” as this essay is reprinted in Democratick Editorials, Lawrence H. White, ed. (1984):

In as far as inequality of human condition is the result of natural causes it affords no just topic of complaint; but in as far as it is brought about by the intermeddling of legislation, among a people who proclaim, as the foundation maxim of all their political institutions, the equality of the rights of man, it furnishes a merited reprehension.