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"Our private property must be sacrificed."
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"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
"He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property."
"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."
"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."
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"And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take."
"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
"It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping."
"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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