Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
Managing your own property can be a full-time job.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.