A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of… — Jesse H. Jones Copy Share Image
We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro... to catch whatever it is that's… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and… — Ron Paul 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
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
“...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
Women ten years ago were much more of the household property than is the case now. It's not to say that if… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class,… — Theobald of Bec Copy Share Image
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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