The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man — John Adams Copy Share Image
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property ... He must be… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that's been… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life. — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private citizens over their property rights. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We… — Alvaro Uribe Copy Share Image
The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Defence for me is so important because I do not want anyone to trespass and invade my property because that goal is… — Leonardo Bonucci Copy Share Image
It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain. — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. — Marjorie Scardino Copy Share Image
Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest. — Scott McGillivray Copy Share Image
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and… — Deborah Tall Copy Share Image
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image