Acquiring Property Quotes
- [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of… — James Madison
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results. — James Madison
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.… — James Madison
- By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau