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 isnt the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. – Lewis H. Lapham

Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. – Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. – Ludwig von Mises