Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Property

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, States, Needed

• Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lasts, Creatures, Subjects

• Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Debt, Benefits

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.468

• History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Art, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

• an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rights, Law, Common

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2006). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.257, Yale University Press

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