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I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible… — Richard Branson
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
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property. — Alexander Shulgin
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill
Conscience is the most sacred of all property. — James Madison
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The… — Karl Marx
The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a… — Dennis Rodman
We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of… — Jesse Owens
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his… — Benjamin Rush
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However… — Charles Dudley Warner
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. — Peter Drucker
Labor diligently to increase your property. — Horace
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control. — Richard Bach
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure… — Frederic Bastiat
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. — Ludwig von Mises

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