Acquisition of Property Quotes

You are advised that it has been determined necessary for the interest of the United States in the prosecution of the war that the property of Los Alamos Ranch School by acquired for military purposes.

The original right of property can only be justified by the accident or merit of prior occupancy

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

I inherited it, I bought it, I conquered it. It’s mine.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

In no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States.

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.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.