Property Quotes

1480 Property quotes by 948 unique authors

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. — Francois Rabelais
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there… — James Madison
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So… — Milton Friedman
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property… — Unknown Author
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term… — James Madison
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. — George Reisman
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln
During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are… — David Suzuki
[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
When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies. — Hilaire Belloc
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the… — Ayn Rand
Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have… — Robert E. Lee
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;… — Charles Caleb Colton
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would stop the radical… — Jim DeMint
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich… — Paul Brooks
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently… — Ferdinand von Mueller
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann

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