I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to marijuana, I think it's ridiculous to live in a country that espouses freedom, liberty and equality, yet won't… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has… — George Vecsey Copy Share Image
Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’, my dad used to say ‘this is my… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from… — Clay Allison Copy Share Image
The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
