Quotes about Property

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

My father told us that our people had been slaves in the desert and because God had seen fit to set us free, none among us should ever own another man. It had been written that every man belonged to God and no one else. But did women belong to God or to the men of their family? They could not own property or businesses; only their husbands could have that honor.

That no man of what estate or condition, shall be put out of land or tenement, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of law.

Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

Thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn.

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.