Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
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