Long Quote by John Ruskin

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such…

— John Ruskin

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

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 worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.”

— Helen Raleigh

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society…

— Andrew Jackson

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts…

— John Ruskin

“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.”

— J.Adam Snyder

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

— Russell Shorto

“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's suffrages, will…

— Alexander Hamilton