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Letter "P" » personal property
«I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.»
«In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.»
«The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.»
«Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.»
Author: William Howard Taft
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President)
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Keywords:
Constitution of the United,
contributed,
established,
guaranteed,
individual liberty,
Individual right,
institution,
personal liberty,
personal property,
property rights,
with that
«Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.»
«The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right»
«One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Keywords:
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banked,
commonly called,
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imperceptibly,
monitor,
monitoring,
monitors,
personal estate,
personal property,
secured,
venerable,
with impatience
«It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.»
Author: George Washington
(
President)
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Keywords:
basis,
citizen,
defense,
defense system,
enjoys,
laid,
owes,
personal property,
position,
primary,
proportion,
protection,
services
«Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.»
«Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.»