Quotes About Property

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

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

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.