And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility… — Allen Johnson 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
Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I agree that science is the best way of understanding the natural world, and therefore that we have reason to believe what… — T. M. Scanlon Copy Share Image
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba. — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image