 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1794 - 584 pages
...who purchafed from them. The moment the idea is admitted into fociety, that property is not as facred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public juftice to proteft it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If " THOU " SHALT NOT COVET," and " THOU SHALT... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford - Great Britain - 1802 - 272 pages
...Conftituents, p. 67.) " The moment (fays Adams) the idea is admitted in fociety, that PROPERTY is not as facred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public juftice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If THOU SHALT NOT COVET, and THOU SHALT NOT STEAL,... | |
 | Adam Thom - Canada - 1836 - 234 pages
...then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. " The moment the idea is admitted into society- that property is not as sacred as the laws...protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ' Thou shall not covet', and ' Thou shalt not steali, were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable... | |
 | John Adams - United States - 1851 - 572 pages
...then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted / into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws...NOT \ COVET," and " THOU SHALT NOT STEAL," were not command- / ments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in / every society, before it can... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 920 pages
...without payment, it is robbery." — Doe, J., 54 NH 590, 611. "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws...protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shall not covet' and 'Thou shall not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they should be made inviolable... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1881 - 556 pages
...of all just government is unsettled. ' The moment,' said the eklerAdams, ' the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws...justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.' "I am aware of the opinion which prevails generally that the Pacific railroad corporations have, by... | |
 | Central Pacific Railroad Company - Pacific railroads - 1887 - 478 pages
...foundation of all just government Is unsettled. The moment, said the elder Adams, the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws...justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Under this law, which received such scathing denunciations from three of the venerable and learned... | |
 | United States - Pacific railroads - 1897 - 270 pages
...all just government is unsettled. " The moment," said the elder Adams, " the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws...justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." I am aware of the opinion which prevails generally that the Pacific railroad corporations have, by... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Citizenship - 1898 - 346 pages
...create and maintain. As President John Quincy Adams once said, "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws...public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny begin." Socialism and Communism. — The term socialism is used to describe that form of political... | |
 | Joseph Harding Underwood - Possession (Law) - 1907 - 234 pages
...of liberty to own was expressed by John Quincy Adams : " " The moment that the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, anarchy and tyranny begin." The American liberty to own land as nearly as possible as a chattel is... | |
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The moment the idea is admitted / into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. 
