Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

Indeed our particular concept of private property which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth favors pollution.

An argument fatal to the communist theory is suggested by the fact that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property the landlords like all other men love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.