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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.