Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames Copy Share Image
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has… — George Vecsey Copy Share Image
The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function… — Louis O. Kelso 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-th… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
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
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit… — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image