No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. – Charles Dudley Warner
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. – Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Property is organized robbery. – George Bernard Shaw
Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. – Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896
What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton
Property has its duties as well as its rights. – Thomas Drummond
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. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. – Anaxagoras
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. – Walter Lippmann
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. – Ludwig von Mises
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all – friends? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. – Maria Edgeworth
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat
Property is the pivot of civilization. – Leon Samson
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends – the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. – Andrew Carnegie
