Quotes About Property

Those who have argued that we are the natural owners of our rights and liberties have been mainly interested in asserting that we should be free to give them away, or even to sell them.

The European conception of individual freedom was, by contrast, tied ineluctably to notions of private property. Legally, this association traces back above all to the power of the male household head in ancient Rome, who could do whatever he liked with his chattels and possessions, including his children and slaves.

Ninety percent of millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. —ANDREW CARNEGIE

If "persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob," "if the laws be continually despised and disregarded," Lincoln warned, citizens' affection for their government must inevitably be alienated.

In 1613 William Shakespeare bought a house nearby for £124 – but did not live in it himself.

When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the government.

Himmler's personal chief of staff, Karl Wolff, arrived with an indignant message from Heydrich at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten: the local Gestapo HQ had just telephoned that Goebbels's district offices everywhere were whipping up anti-Jewish demonstrations and ordering the police not to intervene. Himmler turned to Hitler for guidance. Hitler replied that the Gestapo were to protect Jewish property and lives, and that SS units were not to be called in unless things got out of hand.

Disney security could not make an arrest, but Reedy Creek's city codes gave all cast members the right to detain anyone "causing a disturbance" until the sheriff arrived or to eject anyone from the property who refused to leave when asked.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.

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

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

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

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.