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Letter "P" » property rights
«Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.»
Author: John Cheever
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bewilderment,
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jeopardized,
mugger,
muggers,
prairie,
prairies,
predatory,
property rights,
scorn,
self-discovery,
self esteem,
thieves,
throe,
throes
«No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.»
«Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can»
Author: Samuel Adams
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Politician)
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About:
Right
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Keywords:
Among the,
colonist,
colonists,
defend,
manner,
Natural right,
natural rights,
property,
property right,
property rights,
right to liberty,
right to life,
secondly,
The Natural,
thirdly
«Property has its duties as well as its 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
«Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.»
«Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.»
«Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.»
«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.»
«If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, this would leave us without anything we can call property»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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Keywords:
A.D.,
ad libitum,
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comply,
complying,
demand,
demanding,
property right,
property rights,
taxing,
to the full