Carpe Quote by Abraham Lincoln Download Open image “Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.” — Abraham Lincoln ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carpe Carpe diem Desirable Fruit Fruit of labor Happy labor day Labor Labor day wishes Labour day Libertarian May day Positive Property
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. — James Madison Copy Share Image
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 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
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the… — John Adams Copy Share
“It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated and belong… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is… — Horace Copy Share Image
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation,… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image