#property

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. ↗

— Howard Berman

#essence #government #i #i wish #intellectual

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #move #mysterious #property #way

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. ↗

— John Breaux

#did #gulf #home #i #miles

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

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#ideas #intellectual-property #internet #design

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

— Edward Coke

#injure #own #property #use #your

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. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#because #crazy #did #disappoints #i

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#neither #nor #olympic #property #race

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#compensation #due #federal #federal government #government