Constitution Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under…

— Roger Babson

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle…

— George Orwell

Possessions can be replaced - it's people that can't.

— Jessica Origliasso

“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

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

— John Adams

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams

If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there…

— Anonymous

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which…

— Edmund Burke