Top 25 Property Quotes of 110 - Page 2

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

Country, Citizens, Property

"Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, 1848.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Dolley Madison

Wagons, Property, Private Property

Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

Richard J. Maybury

Freedom, Persons, Property

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Increase, Property, Axioms

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.90, Cosimo Classics

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

John Adams

Liberty, Patriot, Property

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.280

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Ayn Rand

Rights, Property, Property Rights

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.394, Penguin

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

William Ames

Essence, Property, Subsistence

William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

Voltaire

Men, Spirit, Property

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4320, Delphi Classics

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

Russell Kirk

Government, Property

Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

Property is impossible.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Impossible, Property

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.5, Cosimo Classics

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

Ludwig von Mises

Existence, Property, Depends

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.73, VM eBooks

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

John C. Calhoun

Government, Protection, Property

John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

The property of power is to protect.

Blaise Pascal

Power, Protect, Property

Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.103, Letcetera Publishing

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Principles, Notes, Property

"Goodtitle v. Duke of Chandos" (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 1076 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 210-212), 1904.

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

Prince Hassan bin Talal

Ethos, Culture, Property

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

Pope Leo XIII

Men, Property, Every Man

"Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor" art. 6 (1891)

I'm tired of being considered property.

L. Neil Smith

Tired, I'm Tired, Property

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean de la Bruyere

All Things, Lawsuit, Property

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Friedrich Engels

Slavery, Relation, Property

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.132, Haymarket Books

Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.

Frederic Bastiat

Law, Doe, Property

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Prosperity, Ownership, Private Property

All property is theft, except mine.

Terry Pratchett

Theft, Property, Mines

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.418, Random House

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

Stephen Fry

Possession, Entry, Property

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Gambling, Property

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.93