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.

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

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