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Property Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
- An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
- Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
- As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every…
- The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the…
- The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on…
- The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his…
- I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get…
More Property Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to… — Michael Badnarik
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
- Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
- Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams
- In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi