Comfort Quote by James Madison

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and…

— Aristotle

It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get…

— Oscar Wilde

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a…

— Jacqueline Novogratz