Civilised Quote by Edward Gibbon

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of…

— James Madison

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and…

— James F. Cooper

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not…

— John Adams

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

— Aristotle

Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great…

— David Hume

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the…

— Thomas Jefferson

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the…

— Leonard Cohen

No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most…

— David Hume

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person?…

— Aristotle

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect…

— Arthur Miller