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Quotes About Property

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
~ Anthony Trollope
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
~ Melville Fuller
People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
~ Mencius
The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
~ Wang Jianlin
There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
~ Ralph Merkle
What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
~ Barbara Corcoran
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
~ William Graham Sumner
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
~ William Weld
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
~ Elton Gallegly
Managing your own property can be a full-time job.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.
~ Vangelis
I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.
~ Gloria Allred
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
~ Anatoly Chubais
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
~ Anatoly Chubais
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
~ Frederic Bastiat
What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.
~ James Chanos
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.
~ Lysander Spooner
An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.
~ Joseph Kosinski
The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
~ James Dyson
The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.
~ Ronald Coase
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
~ Gregory Stock
In the past, people have had to hire lawyers or consultants to try to figure out whether or not their property contains a federal waterway. We want to make sure that the definition is clear and concise.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
~ Parker Posey
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
~ Benjamin F. Wade