Average Quote by Harry Allen Overstreet

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our…

— Robert D. Kaplan

It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual…

— George Sutherland

The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department…

— Dana Boente

“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”

— Russell Shorto

“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.”

— Joseph Befumo

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

— William Howard Taft

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government…

— Thomas Jefferson

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

— James Madison

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

— James Madison

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the…

— Laurence Tribe

Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free…

— Wayne LaPierre

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to…

— John Adams