Quotes About Life Liberty And Property

#1. All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

Robert Higgs

#2. Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

Henry Rollins

#3. We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality and conduct--regardless of whether or not their conduct has any affect on our personal rights to life, liberty, and property.

Neal Boortz

#4. Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross ... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

Ayn Rand

#5. That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Frederic Bastiat

#7. The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Ilana Mercer

#8. One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

Robert H. Jackson

#9. Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

John Adams

#10. There is no accounting for human beings.

Mark Twain

#11. I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.

Estelle

#12. The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Gilbert Murray

#13. I'm always getting forgotten," said the grizzled doctor sadly. "I must have a very inconspicuous personality.

Agatha Christie

#14. Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Jim Harrison

#15. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#16. The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Frederic Bastiat

#18. Happy people have always inspired me.

Marty Rubin

#19. No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Gideon John Tucker

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Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Samuel Adams

#22. Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.

Alexander Hamilton

#23. If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge is a cage." "But knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.

Penny Reid

#24. Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Phil Gramm

#25. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Allan Bloom

#26. He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: A child is a child when he's a child, even if he's a prophet.

Malala Yousafzai

#27. Miss Steele, I do believe you're making my palm twitch.

E.L. James

#28. I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

Miranda Cosgrove

#29. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

George Sutherland

#30. Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann