Civilized Quote by Walter Lippmann

“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. ”

— Oscar Wilde

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

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— John Adams

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any…

— Daniel De Leon

“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one…

— Lysander Spooner

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

— Potter Stewart

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

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

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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