Property Quotes
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It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of man. Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society. No man would become a member of a community, in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labour and industry.
William Paterson
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Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
William H. Wharton
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Gautama Buddha
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
Abraham Lincoln
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.
Danah Boyd
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
Abraham Lincoln
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The law, notably tort law and the law of property based on the principle of exclusion, is historically prior to any proto-statal authority.
Anthony de Jasay
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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
Aristotle
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It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.
Tom Kite
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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
Aristotle
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A trust held the property and they were liquidating their property. It sold for a little more than we thought, but I was not surprised, positively or negatively.
Eric Johnson
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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Southerners who had insisted on states’ rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights.
Andrew Delbanco
