Character Quote by Roger Babson

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is…

— Aristotle

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is…

— James Madison

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

— Abraham Lincoln

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit…

— Ibn Khaldun

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

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

— Publilius Syrus

“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get…

— Oscar Wilde