Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Humans are like an ever flowing river of fresh water. We stagnate if we stop progressing.” — Arshad Wahedna 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
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard 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
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
China's strategy is to rob, replicate and replace. China robs American companies of their intellectual property. They replicate our technology. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams 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
“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image