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Letter "P" » public property
«Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.»
Author: Gail Hamilton
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public property
«The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority»
Author: George Bancroft
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
development, good authority, persons, property, public opinion, public property, rests
«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.»
Author: Horace Mann
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apple, apple orchard, canker, cankers, corrupt, efforts, exclude, force of law, on paper, orchard, orchards, public property, sign in, The Force, worms
«The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
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admitted, anarchy, commence, commenced, commences, force of law, Law and Justice, property, protect, public property, sacred, The Anarchy, tyranny
«The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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Knowledge
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lower rank, lowest, preservation, public property, ranks
«I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property»
«No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.»
«When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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assumes, property, public property, public trust
«When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property»
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