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Property Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and…
- It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other…
- Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or…
- For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…
- It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other…
- A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their…
- A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make…
- The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The…
- The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even…
- Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only.…
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