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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

James Madison

president of the United States from 1809 to 1817

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher (1803-1882)

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Norman O. Brown

classicist (1913-2002)

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

Pierre de Coubertin

founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

H. P. Blavatsky

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.

Moshe Sharett

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

Dolley Madison

First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Robert Dale Owen

United States politician

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke

English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)

Around the property I have here, I’m about to put an all weather race track. I’m about to build stables. I’m about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

Davy Jones

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