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“Whatever is not nailed down is mine.” This is the motto of the exploiter. “Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down.” This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future. – David Starr Jordan, 1910

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. – 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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