Key Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are rules and regulations, and we live in a country where the Constitution gives us rights and at the same time there are…

— Balachandra Menon

The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for…

— Robert Solow

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

“Land ownership is an entry monopoly: Land is naturally scarce for each location since its supply can't be increased... When people buy a piece…

— Martin Adams

For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with…

— Rebecca Adamson

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

— Thomas Jefferson

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

— Francois Quesnay

Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so…

— James Madison

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the…

— Ambrose Bierce

There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing…

— Louise Erdrich

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison