Every man has by nature the right to possess property as…

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man…

— Pope Leo XIII

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

— Billy Baldwin

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

— Blaise Pascal

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect…

— Arthur Miller

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

— Thomas Paine

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and…

— Margaret Thatcher

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for…

— Thomas Jefferson

“According to Scripture, the trouble with man by nature is not that he is incomplete but that he is dead.”

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“such is their image of man’s nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost,”

— Ayn Rand

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

— Robert Bork