#estates

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him. ↗

— Douglas Reed

#bacon #big #bring #could #days

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. ↗

— James Buchan

#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. ↗

— Edward Young

#down #drop #estates #may #must

I don't think estates are grim places. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#grim #i #places #think