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The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
James Madison
Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
Thomas Clarkson
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott 
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James Madison
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Edward Coke
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett Hardin
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The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
June Jordan
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Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.
Francois Quesnay
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