"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

Property, Folly, Laws

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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."

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"Our private property must be sacrificed."

Dolley Madison, American First Lady

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"For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby."

Margaret Cavendish, English Writer

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"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

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"I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone."

Jeffrey Donovan, American Actor

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"I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked."

Jackie Cooper, American Actor

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"Property is a nuisance."

Paul Erdos, Hungarian Mathematician

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"I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation."

Dolley Madison, American First Lady

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"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."

Edward Coke, English Businessman

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"Property is organized robbery."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee."

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"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."

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"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."

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"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."

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"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."

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"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."

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"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals."

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