American dream Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

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

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think,…

— Ayn Rand

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 is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

— John Adams

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Russell Shorto

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of…

— Ayn Rand

“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. In accordance…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Pope Leo XIII

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man…

— Pope Leo XIII

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

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and…

— Richard M. Nixon