I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
~ Barack Obama
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
~ William Graham Sumner
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
~ Aristotle
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
~ John Locke
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
~ James Madison
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.
~ Charles A. Beard
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.
~ Lysander Spooner
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
~ Mencius
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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.
~ Voltaire
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.
~ Murray Rothbard
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.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
~ Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
~ Lawrence Lessig
