Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

Andrew Carnegie

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Property rights Political theory

Author

Andrew Carnegie

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Industrialist Businessperson

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Carnegie, Andrew. "Wealth." North American Review, June 1889.

Current Citation

Carnegie, Andrew. "The Gospel of Wealth." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.

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The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

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Government Political theory Law

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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Treatise
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Political literature Philosophical literature
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.