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Property Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen…
- [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq…
- [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens…
- There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished…
More Property Quotes
- 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… — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — 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… — Michael Badnarik
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — 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,… — 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… — Samuel Adams
- In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi