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Quotes About Property

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
free men, whose minds were properly on their business, found a satisfaction in improving, cultivating, and providing for their families; but negroes, laboring to support others who claim them as their property, and expecting nothing but slavery during life, had not the like inducement to be industrious.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
~ Benjamin Tucker
We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.
~ Bennett Madison
The policy changed only in early April, as reflected in the deliberations of the Arab affairs advisers in the Coastal Plain. At their meeting of 31 March, the advisers acted to protect Arab property and deferred a decision about expelling Arabs or disallowing Arabs to cultivate their fields. 123 But a week later the advisers ruled that "the intention [policy] was, generally, to evict the Arabs living in the brigade's area." 124
~ Benny Morris
Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.
~ Mel B
Of course I would buy a house in Marbella. In Marbella, you can buy a house by the beach, relax there, and later you can go there on holiday and everything.
~ Carlos Tevez
We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.
~ James Cleverly
We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house.
~ Martin Milner
I want to own a hotel, like Donald Trump.
~ Riff Raff
A man's house is his castle.
~ James Otis
I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.
~ Method Man
I'm not really into houses, well other than I'd just like to have somewhere to live.
~ Chris Harris
I bought quite a few houses and cars.
~ Gautam Rode
I never built houses, only apartments.
~ Harry Triguboff
Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.
~ Jon Tester
I really love houses.
~ Courteney Cox
My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.
~ Robin Wright
I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.
~ Hugh Grant
I like to save my money for buying houses.
~ Kendra Wilkinson