Quotes about property

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on property   

"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."

Coolidge, Calvin on property   

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

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on property   

"No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on property   

"If a man owns land, the land owns him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on property   

"Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on property   

"By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression."

Freud, Sigmund on property   

"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."

King Jr. Martin Luther on property   

"Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul."

Lapham, Lewis H. on property   

"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."

Lincoln, Abraham on property   

"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

Lippmann, Walter on property   

"Where there is no property there is no injustice."

Locke, John on property   

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

Madison, James on property   

"Property is theft."

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph on property   

"Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood."

Proverb, Russian on property   

"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people."

Seattle, Chief on property   

"Property is organized robbery."

Shaw, George Bernard on property   

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"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."

Taft, William Howard on property   

"The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it."

Thoreau, Henry David on property   

"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on property   

"The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location!"

Unknown, Source on property   

"If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it."

Wilde, Oscar on property   

"What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land."

Wilde, Oscar on property   

"Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache."

Wylie, Philip on property