Conscious Quote by Thomas Jefferson

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? .…

— Aristotle

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made…

— Aristotle

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

— John Adams

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

— Jesse Jackson

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to…

— Aristotle

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

— Henry Wriston

“when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the…

— Jon Meacham

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

— Honore de Balzac