The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
William Odom

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.
Ralph Merkle

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
Dixie Lee Ray

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
Emmeline Pankhurst

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Thomas Babington

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

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.
Jeremy Rifkin

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

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
Kate Millett

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
Ernest Istook

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac

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

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge

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