Court Quote by Cliff Stearns

While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve…

— Solomon Ortiz

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this…

— Jim Ryun

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

— Anonymous

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired…

— Sheldon Richman

We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.

— Rashida Tlaib

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to…

— Aristotle

[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners…

— Murray Rothbard

“Whenever land is bought and sold, three stakeholders automatically vie for a cut from the revenue that can be had from land: the community,…

— Martin Adams

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local…

— Pete Sessions

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even…

— Benjamin Franklin

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support…

— James Q. Wilson

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not…

— William Blackstone