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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for… — Edwin Land
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property. — Voltaire
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being… — Alexander Hamilton
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he… — Thomas Jefferson
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,… — Frederick Douglass
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information… — Noah Webster
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these… — Thomas Jefferson
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it… — Ulysses S. Grant
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life… — Antony Hewish
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society,… — Jeremy Collier
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz
Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding… — Joseph Rotblat
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He,… — James Burgh
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. — Thomas Jefferson
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right… — Thomas Jefferson
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of… — Thomas Jefferson
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the… — Malcolm X
The best ideas are common property. — Seneca the Younger
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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