#property

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#did #doing #everybody #father #follow

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#cheap #death #job #life #little

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ↗

— William H. Seward

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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

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But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. ↗

— William H. Seward

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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ↗

— Adam Smith

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I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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