No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make...

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties until there are signs that the U.S. interest rate cycle will end.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the...

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,my generation is saying this is my house I pay...

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.

I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation of one’s ego is a natural right sanctioned by natural law. A person...

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Settling other people’s land is an American tradition.

Bei vielen Menschen […] vermute ich eine geheime Verfassung, deren virtueller Artikel 1 lautet: “Die Besitzstandswahrung ist unantastbar.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery,...

…A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment–with its redefinition of personhood–is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a...

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual’s right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle,...

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Un fait capital domine toute la civilisation moderne, le fait que la propriété d’un seul peut s’accroître indéfiniment, et même, en vertu du consentement presque universel, embrasser le monde entier.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.

I’ve been so bothered with my property, that I’m tired of it, and don’t mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or...

With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we’re seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this...

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman...

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they...

You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.

Central to Möser’s view of the human world was “honor,” a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion of dignity would be for the more individualistic society that succeeded it. In...

Take one famous example: arguments about property destruction after Seattle. Most of these, I think, were really arguments about capitalism. Those who decried window-breaking did so mainly because they wished to appeal to middle-class consumers...

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted...

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

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...

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common...

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks...

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.