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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.
View quotes by Tocqueville
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights
View quotes by James Madison
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
View quotes by Potter Stewart
Property is theft.
View quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
View quotes by John Locke
Property has its duties as well as its rights
View quotes by Thomas Drummond
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
View quotes by Sallust
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
View quotes by John Jay
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
View quotes by Frederic Bastiat
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
View quotes by John Adams
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
View quotes by Maria Edgeworth
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Well! Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a snug little property
View quotes by Maria Edgeworth
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
View quotes by Walter Lippmann
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
View quotes by Karl Marx
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honour, they are satisfied (Il Principe)
View quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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