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 | "Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the
community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may
require it." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "It is preoccupation with possessions, more that anything else, that
prevents us from living freely and nobly." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain
that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains." | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "Mine is better than ours." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Property is the fruit of labor ... property is desirable ... is a
positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may
become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him
labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence when built." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that
may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion
for possession in one and disappoints it in all others." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as
sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public
justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." | |
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John Adams
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| "The robb?d that smiles steals something from the thief." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Them that has china plates themsels is the maist careful no to break
the china plates of others." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who
can adequately place it." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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