Business Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being…

— James Russell Lowell

“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher…

— Thomas Jefferson

The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the…

— Thomas Paine

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.

— Emiliano Zapata

My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they…

— Black Hawk

“Human beings need land even more so than they need money; the monopoly of land - not the monopoly of money - is the…

— Martin Adams

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land.…

— Thomas Jefferson

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