Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.
I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.
The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.
Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.