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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
-Walter Lippmann
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
-John Locke
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
-James Madison
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
-James Madison
Federalist Papers, no. 39, January, 1788
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
-Peace Pilgrim
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
-Peace Pilgrim
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Property is theft.
-Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right
-Murray N. Rothbard
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
-John Ruskin
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
-George Santayana
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
-Chief Seattle
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Property is organized robbery.
-George Bernard Shaw
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How many are the things I can do without!
-Socrates
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
-William Howard Taft
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Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.
-Teresa of Avila
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
-Henry David Thoreau
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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation.
-Source Unknown
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The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location!
-Source Unknown
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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
-Philip Wylie
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Books about Property
