Property Quotes

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

Property is a nuisance.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

People have to respect intellectual property.

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.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Property is theft.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

I'm tired of being considered property.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

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.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.