Famous quotes containing the words property and/or providing:
“Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)