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“Birth and wealth are conferred on some men as imperiously by nature, as genius, strength, or beauty.”
— John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813, in The Portable John Adams (2004), p. 504.
“We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.”
— Adolf Hitler, as quoted in Der Fuehrer, Hitler's Rise to Power, by Konrad Heiden. Statement of the 1920.
“We are a band of brothers and native to the soil, fighting for the property we gained by honest toil.”
— , "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (1861).
“He who possesses many things is constantly on guard.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection I at , .
“The power to regulate the disposal of property after death ought not to extend to doing it in a manner tending to the prejudice of the living.”
— Lord Truro, Brownlow v. Egerton (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 5 (N. S.), Ch. 403.
“The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.”
— Confucius, cited in A Little Book of Aphorisms (New York: 1947), p. 185.

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