"A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first element of freedom."
— Private property

January 1, 1970

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Lord Acton, ‘Nationality’, Home and Foreign Review (July 1862), quoted in Lord Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays, eds. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (1907), p. 297