Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
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Don't steal. The government hates competition.
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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
