Full Idea
The aim of all political associations is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Gist of Idea
The purpose of society is to protect the rights of liberty, property, security and resistance
Source
Mirabeau and committee (Declaration of the Rights of Man [1789], 02)
Book Reference
'Les Philosophes', ed/tr. Torrey,Norman L. [Perigee 1980], p.285
A Reaction
Radical thinkers will obviously be doubtful about property being on the list, because that entrenches huge inequalities, between peasants and their landlords. Resistance to oppression will bother the likes of Edmund Burke.