Landowners Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing…
— Mark Udall
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
— Che Guevara
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While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
— Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
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Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example…
— Jairam Ramesh
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born…
— Ang Lee
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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
— Jesse Jackson
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When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days,…
— Norman Foster
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The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there…
— Winona LaDuke
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In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval…
— Jill Lepore
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build…
— Gale Norton
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Men no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it, divide it into shares, prostitute it, bargain with it and treat it as an…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Landowners Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Landowners Quotes as follows: