Property Quotes - page 2

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. (Horace Mann)
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. View quote
John Adams
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist. View quote
John Adams
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. View quote
James Madison
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. View quote
James Madison
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. View quote
Thomas Paine
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. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. (Samuel Adams)
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. View quote
George Reisman
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. View quote
Murray Rothbard
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. View quote
John Jay
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. View quote
Neil Kinnock
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. (Ian MacKaye)
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. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. View quote
Thomas Sowell
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. View quote
George Bancroft