Livelihood Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

— John Locke

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Pope Leo XIII

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

— James Madison

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being…

— James Russell Lowell

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

— Anonymous

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being…

— John Locke

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected…

— John Locke

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson