Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Walter Lippmann

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow Wilson

Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Drummond

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

Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams

Property is theft.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
Robert Dale Owen

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
Jim Ryun

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
Rick Perry

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens

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

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
William Weld