It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent… — John Stossel 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
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
I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self… — Andy Griffiths Copy Share Image
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence,… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state:… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt,… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image