It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us;… — Grace King Copy Share Image
The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures… — Ouida Copy Share Image
If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Engel & Volkers real estate advisors are specifically - and continuously - trained to understand and handle the needs of property transactions… — Anthony Hitt Copy Share Image
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses… — George Fownes Copy Share Image
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people,… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I further promise you, that all my wealth and property will be in Pakistan. I will take ownership of this country and… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
