Private property Quotes

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

— John Adams

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

— Thomas Jefferson

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our private property must be sacrificed.

— Dolley Madison

Truth is not private property.

— Saint Augustine

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

— Facundo Cabral

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

— Ron Paul

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

— Roger Scruton

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

— Karl Marx

“The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

— Jim Ryun

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes…

— Friedrich Engels

Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate…

— Richard M. Weaver

“The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized…

— Robert Liparulo

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate…

— Richard Allen Epstein

“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. ”

— Oscar Wilde

“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many…

— Roger Scruton

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

— Garrett Hardin

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there…

— John Adams

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile…

— Paul Brooks

“Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part…

— Niall Ferguson

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with…

— Karl Marx

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's…

— Marine Le Pen

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution…

— Henry Hazlitt

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under…

— Karl Marx

The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our…

— Jeffrey H Reiman

There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…

— Rush Limbaugh

“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society.…

— Lierre Keith

“It is all very well to have some internal sense of oneself as an individual, but that sense must correspond to an…

— Jerry Z. Muller

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of…

— William Blackstone

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation…

— Ludwig von Mises

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property…

— Sigmund Freud

“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation.…

— John Steinbeck

“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so…

— G. William Domhoff

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

— Lord Acton

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

— e. e. cummings