"If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor"
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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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"Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property."
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"Where there's property, there's theft."
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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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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Property belongs to man and not man to property."
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"Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property."
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"Property isn't theft: it's nothing."
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"To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it."
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"Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties."
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"Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook."
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"Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it."
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"The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring."
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"Property in land is as indefensible as property in man."
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