Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing… — Joseph James Ettor Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit,… — David T. Dellinger Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises,… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.”… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by… — Ejnar Hertzsprung Copy Share Image
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture. — Prince Hassan bin Talal Copy Share Image
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image