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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
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Personal Development
"Property is organized robbery."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Property is a nuisance."
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Personal Development
"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
Property
"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."
Law
"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
Society
"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."
Power
"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual."
Man
"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
Business
"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."
Family
"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."
Attention
"Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable."
Being
"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."
Development
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