Best Quote by Benjamin Franklin

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

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

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

— Benjamin Franklin

My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they…

— Black Hawk

We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Thomas Jefferson

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at…

— Thomas Sowell

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

— Thomas Aquinas

“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Pope Leo XIII