Property Quotes

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create… — Aristotle
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to… — Aristotle
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all… — Roger Babson
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life,… — Michael Badnarik
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class,… — Roger Nash Baldwin
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed… — Frederic Bastiat
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right… — Samuel Adams
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual… — James Belushi
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation… — Ambrose Bierce
My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter. — Lewis Black
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government… — Michael Bloomberg
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. — Jean de la Bruyere
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash… — James Buchan
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the… — James Buchan

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