Every man Quote by Adam Smith

Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.

— Gertrude the Great

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

— Aristotle

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

— Anatole France

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

— Thomas Paine

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and…

— John Locke

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that…

— Thomas Jefferson

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and…

— James F. Cooper

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals…

— Pope Pius XI