Earth Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to…

— Charles Eisenstein

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

— John Adams

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

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

— John Locke

“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

— Louis O. Kelso

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson

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

— Pope Leo XIII

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and…

— James F. Cooper

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish…

— Massasoit

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the…

— Thomas Jefferson