What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential… — Jose Peralta Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies,… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it… — Dan Glickman Copy Share Image
Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have… — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Copy Share Image
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely fair . . . to permit only those with sufficient funds to spend to appropriate that which, in reality,… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it… — Bruce Van Voorhis Copy Share Image
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs.… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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