The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Property is theft.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.