It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion. — Percy L. Greaves, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
The Republicans want to take us forward to the dark ages again ... when women were property that you could easily control,… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person,… — James Madison 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
In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
