Class Quote by Daniel Webster

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot…

— Daniel Webster

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

— George Bernard Shaw

If my property cannot be secure, in case others over whom I have no kind of influence, may take it from me by taxes,…

— John Dickinson

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which…

— Edmund Burke

People are more important than property.

— Roy Cooper

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him…

— John Locke

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

— John C. Calhoun

So use your own property as not to injure that of another

— Edward Coke

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

— John Adams

The property of power is to protect.

— Blaise Pascal