Property Quotes · Page 91

If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take…

— Jesse Ventura

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed…

— John S. Mosby

I've had enough of being public property.

— Margaret Trudeau

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

— Vance Havner

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in…

— Daniel Webster

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and…

— Anonymous

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a…

— Nat Hentoff

Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property…

— Ayn Rand

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at…

— Anonymous

It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that…

— T.R. Reid

I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property,…

— Liu Bolin

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

— Woodrow Wilson

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be…

— Mark Twain

For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for…

— Chris Cannon

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their…

— John Locke

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

— H. L. Mencken

The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of…

— Thomas Pogge

In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it.…

— Steve Jobs

Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be…

— Ferdinand von Mueller