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In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. -- Potter Stewart
Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital. -- Mencius
You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich. -- Mohsin Hamid
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree. -- Jefferson Davis
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. -- John Jay
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. -- John Locke
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. -- Frederic Bastiat
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. -- Barack Obama
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. -- James Madison
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. -- James Madison
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. -- Jack Kevorkian
Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property. -- Naomi Wolf
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. -- Henry Rollins
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property. -- Michael Badnarik
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. -- John L. Lewis
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. -- Ibrahim Rugova
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. -- Samuel Adams
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man. -- Lysander Spooner
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. -- Ayn Rand
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now. -- Al Yankovic
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. -- John Ruskin
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. -- William H. Seward
Property in everyday life, is the right of control. -- Louis O. Kelso
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. -- John Adams
Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor. -- Adolphe Thiers
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. -- Pope Leo XIII
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. -- Jim Ryun
Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. -- James Boswell
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. -- Robert H. Jackson
[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. -- James Madison
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He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. -- Dixie Lee Ray
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen. -- Steve Jobs
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. -- William Blackstone
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. -- Henry David Thoreau
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state. -- Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. -- William Blackstone
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . -- William Howard Taft
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party "¦ and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. -- Gore Vidal
Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right. -- Francis G. Slay
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. -- Abraham Lincoln
AXIOM. â?? Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. -- Jack Kevorkian
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. -- Ayn Rand
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right. -- James Madison
No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia. -- Alvaro Uribe
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. -- John Adams
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare. -- Charles Lindbergh
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right. -- Potter Stewart
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property. -- Winston Churchill
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle. -- Abraham Lincoln
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust. -- Charles James Fox
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation. -- Pope Leo XIII
In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. -- Mark Skousen
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property. -- Mark Twain
Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding -- Edgar A. Suter

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