Property Quotes
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.
The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
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.
Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.
I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.
We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.