James Madison Quotes

Much of the existing wealth of this country takes the form of rights that do not fall within traditional common-law concepts of property.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

The law may do what it will with the owner of property, its just power will still attach to the cent.

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.

Property is impossible.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

Property is a nuisance.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

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

... to teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every form of government...to teach the duty of government, to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

In what then does real power consist? The answer is short and plain—in property.

Property is proper to man.

I own everything. I own my RV, my house, my trucks, my boat. Everything is paid for.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.