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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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"Property is organized robbery."

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"I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."

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"I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania."

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"Property is a nuisance."

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"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."

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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."

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

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