Benjamin Franklin Quotes:
Ocupation: Founding Father of the United States
Life: January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
Birthday: January 17
Death: April 17
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
source: Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2006). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.257, Yale University Press
topic: Free State
