Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. Votes: 4
Abraham LincolnFreedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. Votes: 3
George WashingtonProperty does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. Votes: 3
Frederic BastiatThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Votes: 3
Karl Marx[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. Votes: 3
James MadisonGive your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx . Votes: 3
Joseph GoebbelsNo man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Votes: 2
Thomas JeffersonPrivate property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. Votes: 2
Walter LippmannI'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names. Votes: 2
Gloria AllredEvery man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. Votes: 2
John LockeI told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.' Votes: 1
Joan RiversYou cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect. Votes: 0
Bikram ChoudhuryCorporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty. Votes: 0
Vanna BontaGambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawBion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common. Votes: 0
Bion of BorysthenesA universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture. Votes: 0
Prince Hassan bin TalalThe essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... Votes: 0
Ayn RandLocke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property. Votes: 0
Russell KirkKnowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. Votes: 0
Samuel SmilesThe soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. Votes: 0
Jim OberweisPrivate ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. Votes: 0
Cathy McMorris RodgersAs astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. Votes: 0
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleTruth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. Votes: 0
Errol MorrisNobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates. Votes: 0
Janusz Korwin-MikkeI would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation. Votes: 0
Ulysses S. GrantA nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights. Votes: 0
Edmund PhelpsAn expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms Votes: 0
Hans-Hermann HoppeEstablish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . Votes: 0
Jeannette RankinProtection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. Votes: 0
Jim RyunStrict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. Votes: 0
Zebulon PikeThose whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerOur probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThis isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukPrivate property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannWithout that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. Votes: 0
Francois QuesnayEgalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. Votes: 0
Hans-Hermann HoppeEveryday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others. Votes: 0
Michel De CerteauI think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property. Votes: 0
Shepard FaireyRiches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment. Votes: 0
MuhammadOne's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. Votes: 0
Robert H. JacksonNo man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. Votes: 0
Mark TwainJacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeSo far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonAbscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on. Votes: 0
William Anthony DonohueThe phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. Votes: 0
Charles SumnerThe time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property. Votes: 0
Lewis Henry MorganTrees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. Votes: 0
Michael BloombergThe awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. Votes: 0
Johan HuizingaInflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. Votes: 0
Murray RothbardWhen neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliA culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Votes: 0
Lawrence LessigWhenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnI see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassI think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream. Votes: 0
J. Michael StraczynskiThere ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors." Votes: 0
William Graham SumnerThe protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineAnytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it. Votes: 0
Rusty SchweickartThere ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. Votes: 0
William Graham SumnerA sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. Votes: 0
Jane Austen[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnTo inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWith the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. Votes: 0
Ezra StilesA woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinThe people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineYes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain. Votes: 0
Barry LygaAre you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. Votes: 0
Kingsley WoodGod hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. Votes: 0
EuripidesOur houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauCreativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people. Votes: 0
Ron CarterHe possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeLinux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Votes: 0
Steve BallmerThose who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Votes: 0
James MadisonThe power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. Votes: 0
James MadisonA people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom Votes: 0
Lord ActonI like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property. Votes: 0
Martin FreemanNo doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawYou will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliOur industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property. Votes: 0
Cliff RichardInvesting in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market. Votes: 0
Wang JianlinInvesting in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market. Votes: 0
Wang JianlinThe measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured. Votes: 0
Niels Bohr[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice. Votes: 0
Nick JonasThe future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves. Votes: 0
Albert CamusSome people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. Votes: 0
Maria EdgeworthPeople can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure. Votes: 0
MenciusHow marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingThe law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used. Votes: 0
Ronald CoaseWe are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator. Votes: 0
Adam ClarkeAll sentient beings should have at least one right"the right not to be treated as property Votes: 0
Gary L. FrancioneBut any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. Votes: 0
Zora Neale HurstonThe whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. Votes: 0
William OdomDo all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property. Votes: 0
Richard J. MayburyEven in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property. Votes: 0
Vanilla IceThe slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. Votes: 0
George ReismanIt is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. Votes: 0
Francois RabelaisWhen death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep. Votes: 0
William ArnotThe whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. Votes: 0
William Eldridge OdomThe highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty. Votes: 0
Algernon Charles SwinburneAll men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws Votes: 0
VoltaireI own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWhere all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThe real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state. Votes: 0
Adam MichnikIn a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. Votes: 0
Charles HandyWhat I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. Votes: 0
Thomas PikettyA democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. Votes: 0
AristotleLearning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life. Votes: 0
Haki R. MadhubutiThere is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets. Votes: 0
Joyce MaynardGreat is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. Votes: 0
AristotleWe will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltWhy not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. Votes: 0
Barbara CastleIncome from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker. Votes: 0
Joan RobinsonHe has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. Votes: 0
Dixie Lee RayMost of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property. Votes: 0
Michael BadnarikEach of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. Votes: 0
Frederic BastiatThought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrivate property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it Votes: 0
Karl MarxPart of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you. Votes: 0
Henry BonillaMy home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. Votes: 0
John BreauxHe says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns. Votes: 0
Malak El HalabiShe's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male. Votes: 0
Jerry ReedMuch violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenYou cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property. Votes: 0
Russel Honore