Quotes of: Plunder Keyword

He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror.

Greek

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, ...

The Law

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawfu...

Frederic Bastiat

The Italian invents it; the Frenchman makes it; the Germans sell it; the Pole buys it and the Tartar plunders it.

Polish

And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.

I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.

I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

The Library at Night

I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.

I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.

I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Frederic Bastiat

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

Pete Laney

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

Henry IV

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Benjamin Disraeli

The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his . He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus a...

The Law

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Paddy Chayefsky

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

Lysander Spooner

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Richard Cobden

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

Lysander Spooner