Community Quote by James Madison

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are…

— James Madison

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

— African Spir

Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

— Ludwig von Mises

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

— Ivan Panin

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle…

— George Orwell

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

— Lord Acton

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

— Dan Davis

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old…

— Neil Abercrombie

People are more important than property.

— Roy Cooper