Thomas Spence

“The public must have the land, or they cannot have their rights.”

“The land is the people's farm.”

“The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race.”

“Let it not be said that I am a leveller; I am only for taking my own.”

“For the Rights of Man are not confined to this or that side of the channel, or to this or that side of the Atlantic, but belong to all the human race.”

“Then you may be sure the Age of Reason is come, for all will be rational and happy.”

“And is it not time, think you, to do away with this cruel and unjust system?”

“Seeing that a child has a right to life, he has also a right to a place to live in.”

“War would be banished from the earth, and every man would be a brother.”

“In this state of things every man would be a tenant to the parish, and the rents would be the same to all.”