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The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. – John Adams

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams

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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. – Henry David Thoreau

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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell – “voluntarily” sell – himself every day and hour to the “beast of property.” – Johann Most, The Beast of Property

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, “Get the hell off my property.” – Joan Rivers

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