James Boswell Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

  James Boswell

  Influence, Should, Proportion

  James Boswell (1874). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.233

• I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

  James Boswell

  Family, Men, Rights

  James Boswell (1963). “Boswell: the ominous years, 1774-1776”

• To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.

  James Boswell

  Country, Men, West Indies

  James Boswell (1874). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.239

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