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| No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. ~ Charles Dudley Warner |
| As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~ Adam Smith, |
| Property is organized robbery. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~ Robert Ingersoll |
| What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~ Thomas Drummond |
| Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. ~ Martin Luther King |
| The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family’s income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. ~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
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| Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. ~ Anaxagoras |
| It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ~ Bertrand Russell, |
| Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. ~ Walter Lippmann |
| The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. ~ Potter Stewart |
| If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ~ Ludwig von Mises |
| Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ~ John Locke |
| We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all – friends? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
| Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ~ Maria Edgeworth |
| Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ~ Frederic Bastiat |
| Property is the pivot of civilization. ~ Leon Samson |
| Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends – the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. ~ Andrew Carnegie |
| The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless "We Shelter You America." The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them… from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right. ~ Fred Woodworth, |
| The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ~ John Locke |
| Don’t you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don’t you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don’t you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is. ~ Robert Ingersoll, |
| As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli |
| It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell – "voluntarily" sell – himself every day and hour to the "beast of property." ~ Johann Most, |
| Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. ~ Ayn Rand |
| My body and spirit are the only things that truly belong to me. ~ Carrie Latet |