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Quotation from A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“not by building hospitals for the poor, but by securing the citizens”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (spoken by Rousseau)

A Discourse on Political Economy, Second rule (inequality), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)

Government should prevent extreme inequality of fortune not by confiscation but by keeping citizens from becoming poor; 'hospitals' here are the poorhouses of the old regime.

Citation: "not by building hospitals for the poor, but by securing the citizens" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Political Economy, Second rule (inequality), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id rousseau-discourse-on-political-economy-q6)

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