Community Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

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

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

— Benjamin Franklin

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his…

— John Locke

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him…

— John Locke

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

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

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being…

— John Locke

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

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of…

— Hilaire Belloc

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

— Alexander Hamilton