I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits… — J. S. Woodsworth Copy Share Image
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
After we did [All In The Family], that ended up being a real love fest all around. Me and Norman, Norman [Lear]… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Women have only had the vote for less than 100 years. Before that, we were wives and essentially kind of property. We… — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese… — Iwane Matsui Copy Share Image
The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Formal property’s contribution to mankind is not the protection of ownership; squatters, housing organizations, mafias, and even primitive tribes manage to protect… — Hernando de Soto Copy Share Image
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz 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
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
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
Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it… — Lauren Berlant Copy Share Image
As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image