Quotes about Property

Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.

This means that a peculiar burden falls on property owners. Since the laws protecting their property will be effective only when they are able to persuade others to obey those laws, they must introduce a theatricality into their ownership sufficiently engaging that their opponents will live by its script.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.