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Quotes from The Rights of Man — Joseph Priestley

1733–1804 England

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All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a Government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds.

The Rights of Man (1791)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Priestley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.