Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Property is organized robbery.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

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.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Every summer’s mine.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.