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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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"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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Personal Development
"I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."
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Personal Development
"I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania."
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Personal Development
"Our private property must be sacrificed."
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Personal Development
"Property is organized robbery."
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Personal Development
"Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution."
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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
"He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property."
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Personal Development
"Property is a nuisance."
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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."
Control
"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."
Dream
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
Man
"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
Property
"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."
Finance
"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
"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
Communication
"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."
Age
"I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation."
Family
"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
Fitness
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