Common Quote by R. H. Tawney

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop…

— Pope Pius XII

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort,…

— Ayn Rand

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even…

— Benjamin Franklin

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will…

— Aristotle

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to…

— Aristotle

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property,…

— Aristotle

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any…

— Daniel De Leon

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only…

— Henry Calvert Simons

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

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

— Lord Acton