Affection Quote by William Blackstone

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and…

— William Blackstone

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and…

— William Blackstone

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

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

— John Adams

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

— Anonymous

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

— Pope Leo XIII

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

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

— Calvin Coolidge

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

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in…

— Pope Leo XIII

“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the…

— Theodore Roosevelt