Property Quotes

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

What brings you onto my property?" Rhev said, cradling his mug with both hands trying to absorb its warmth. Got a problem" I can't fix your personality, sorry

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

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

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

The best ideas are common property.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

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.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

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.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.