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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. -- Thomas Jefferson
I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property. -- Freddie Stroma
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations. -- Thomas Frank
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. -- George Bernard Shaw
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility. -- Terry Eagleton
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City. -- Thomas L. Smith
The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on. -- William Anthony Donohue
Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq. -- Ernest Istook
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends. -- Edward Hirsch
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property. -- Tim LaHaye
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. -- Calvin Coolidge
What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property. -- Winona Ryder
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. -- Mary Abigail Dodge
I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do it on public property. They have to do it on private property. There's nothing unconstitutional about that. -- John Shelby Spong
If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution. -- John Shelby Spong
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. -- James Buchan
The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play. -- Charles Churchill
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property. -- A. R. Rahman
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. -- Thomas Carlyle
Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right. -- Noah Webster
If it's in the bin, it's public property. -- Sophie Kinsella
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. -- Stephen Hawking
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers. -- Matt Cartwright
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation. -- Elton Gallegly
For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country. -- Evan Osnos
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good. -- Jim Ryun
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. -- George Bancroft
I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked. -- Jackie Cooper
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. -- Rick Perry
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown. -- Murray Rothbard
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. -- Bruce Sterling
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. -- Robert Reich
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good. -- Solomon Ortiz
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. -- Charles Sumner
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. -- Hilaire Belloc
When you're famous no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. There's nothing real about it. -- Beyonce Knowles
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. -- James C. Scott
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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