The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband.… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson Copy Share Image
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image