Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think… — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property… — Jonathan Culler 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
[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
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures,… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image