Adverse Possessor

Famous quotes containing the words adverse and/or possessor:

    “[Religious establishment] is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity ... [because] with an ignoble and unchristian timidity it would [be] circumscribed, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labour which its possessor will take in exchange for it.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)