Common Quote by Richard M. Nixon

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

— Ayn Rand

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the…

— Peter Singer

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its…

— Anonymous

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

— Cloris Leachman

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

— Morgan Freeman

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but…

— Bill Cosby

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr