property rights quotes

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.

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.

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.

Property is organized robbery.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.