Court Quote by Joseph Story

“That is a good example of why efficient and trustworthy courts are so important. Without them, people are left to their own devices. Frequently,…

— Paul Marlowe

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true…

— Jimmy Carter

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

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be…

— Walter Lippmann

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in…

— Earl Warren

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

— James A. Garfield

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

— William Howard Taft

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

— Potter Stewart

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

— Felix Frankfurter

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

— John Adams

“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect…

— Arthur Miller

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