Affection Quote by 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 rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson

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

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

It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of…

— James Madison

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

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

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

— Russell Shorto

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