Property Quotes

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

I will always recommend Goodwin & Thyne Properties to all my friends and business associates, thank you for going over and beyond the call of duty!

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.