Property Quotes

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

Donald Trump has come out in favor of shutting down Planned Parenthood. However, experts say, if he really wants Planned Parenthood to go under he should turn it into a Trump property.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.