Quotes on Private Property

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

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.