Civilization Quote by Daniel De Leon

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when…

— R. H. Tawney

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

— Pope Leo XIII

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop…

— Pope Pius XII

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being…

— James Russell Lowell

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be…

— Walter Lippmann

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

— John Adams

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its…

— Anonymous

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only…

— Henry Calvert Simons