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

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

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

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

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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

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

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.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own 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.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Property is organized robbery.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.