Claims Quote by Roger Pilon

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

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

— James Madison

It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual…

— George Sutherland

“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”

— Russell Shorto

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams

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

— John Adams

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

— Louis O. Kelso

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

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

— Potter Stewart

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

— James Madison