Quote by John Dickinson

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

— John C. Calhoun

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

— William Weld

“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him…

— John Locke

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not…

— William Blackstone

I'm public property, the public put me where I am. They own me.

— Rylan Clark-Neal

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

So use your own property as not to injure that of another

— Edward Coke

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people…

— Tom Bethell

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

— Friedrich August von Hayek