Application Quote by Ayn Rand

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when…

— R. H. Tawney

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop…

— Pope Pius XII

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him…

— John Locke

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to…

— Aristotle

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property,…

— Aristotle

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are…

— Thomas Aquinas

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will…

— Aristotle

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even…

— Benjamin Franklin

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any…

— Daniel De Leon

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

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls