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"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"property has its duties as well as its rights." »Thomas Brummond
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"The best ideas are common property." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." »Judge Gideon J. Tucker
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"Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session." »Daniel Webster
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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority." »George Bancroft
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"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" »Mark Twain
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"We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths." »James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
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"On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property." »Buddha
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"What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the internet -- and no one's gonna shut down the internet." »Steve Jobs
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"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice." »Max Nordau
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." »Frederick Douglas
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.'" »Joan Rivers
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." »Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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"All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*" »Akhlak-i-Jalali
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property" »Thomas Jefferson
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion." »James Burgh
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