Property Quotes
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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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The conditions today are exceptionally difficult, and the primary concern of the state is and will be the protection of lives and by extension of property.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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Antifa are the left-wing version of Nazis. They are very violent; they are terrible people. They cause a ruckus and property damage.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
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Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
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In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
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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.
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction.
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A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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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.
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Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
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Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.