Note 59 — THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

Quesnay said: “The security of property is the essential foundation of the economic order of society.” Maximes générales au gouvernement, Physiocrates, ii, 83, Paris, 1846. Turgot, writing of the omnipotence of the State, said: “This principle that nothing should limit the rights of society upon the individual, save the greater good of society, appears to me false and dangerous. Every man is born free, and this liberty can never be limited unless it degenerate into license, that is to say, ceases to be liberty.... It is forgotten that society is made for the individual, that is, instituted only for protecting the rights of all, by assuring the accomplishment of all mutual duties.” Quoted by M. E. Daire, Physiocrates, ii, Introd., xxi, xxii.