Quote by James Madison
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equall

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison

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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. – James Madison

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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. – Bill Gates

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton

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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. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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