Ownership

"La propriété, c'est le vol."

"The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have."

"Ich heisse Der reichste Mann in der getauften Welt; Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter."

"The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions."

"The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V."

"Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king."

"Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law."

"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."

"A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."

"Germany must have her place in the sun."

"People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing."

"Lord of himselfe, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all."