Quotes with property

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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Locke Government has no other end but the preservation of Property
    Second Treatise Ch. 17
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Herbert Hoover Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Norman O. Brown I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Bruce Sterling I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Barack Obama I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
    in 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Bill Goldberg If I wasn't prepared knowing every year there is a huge chance of a fire that will require me to evacuate my property, then I'm an ignoramus. If people at this point don't see that terrorism is a reality, and don't take steps to prepare themselves a little more than they were the day before, then they are also an irresponsible ignoramus.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bill Gates Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
    The Wall Street Journal (29-12-2011)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Aristotle It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Hubert Humphrey It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Ayn Rand Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Smiles Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Horace Labor diligently to increase your property.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace Mann Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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