The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
"The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIII: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants, Ch. 29: Of Hospitals, 1748.
