IX. 34–36 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“If a man own land, the land owns him.”
Wealth
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.”
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 38 (Chinese saying)
Joseph Arch
(1826–1919) British politician
Source: The Story of his Life Told by Himself (1898), p. 11
“If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward.”
Julius Malema
(1981) South African political activist
At the EFF's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on 29 July 2017, as quoted by Mxolisi Mngadi in Mbeki is wrong when he says there's no white monopoly capital - Malema https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mbeki-is-wrong-when-he-says-theres-no-white-monopoly-capital-malema-20170729, News24 (29 July 2017)
“Sir, I am not in your land, but in my own.”
El Cid
(1048–1099) Spanish nobleman and military leader
El Cid's answer to the king when ordered to quit his land; in Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish by Robert Southey (1808), Book III, §18, p. 96
Attributed
Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XXXI: "The Riddle of the Ivy"
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].”
Thomas Jefferson
(1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
within his own lands Draft Constitution for Virginia (June 1776) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/jeffcons.asp This quote often appears with the parenthetical omitted and with the spurious extension, "The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government". (See "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms" Quotation https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/no-freeman-shall-be-debarred-use-arms ( Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20200220105040/https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/no-freeman-shall-be-debarred-use-arms from the original on February 20, 2020) and Jefferson Encyclopedia "Strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms" Quotation http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/strongest-reason-people-to-retain-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-quotation ( Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20200218101730/https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/strongest-reason-people-retain-right-keep-and-bear-arms-spurious from the original on February 20, 2020))
1770s
“I do not own an inch of land,
But all I see is mine”
Lucy Larcom
(1824–1893) American teacher, poet, author
Poems (1869), A Strip of Blue (1870)
Context: I do not own an inch of land,
But all I see is mine, —
The orchard and the mowing fields,
The lawns and gardens fine.
Charles Barron
(1950) American politician
Talking about Bishop Tutu, and Nelson Mandela. http://observer.com/2008/06/barron-praises-robert-mugabe-for-doing-what-mandela-and-tutu-wouldnt/