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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
"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."
"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."
"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."
"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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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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