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Property Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
- Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for…
- No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
- Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
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- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
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- 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
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