Personal Property Quotes

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his.

We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Real and personal property of those who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared confiscated to public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

Trial by jury, the best of all safeguards for the person, the property, and the fame of every individual.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

That there shall be no discrimination in civil rights or immunities ... on account of race ... but the inhabitants of every race ... shall have the same right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, and shall be subject to like punishment ... and no other

I am a true constitutionalist, and whether it is our state's rights, personal property rights or the right to bear arms, the federal government will know if they come to Michigan trying to trample our rights, it will have a fight on its hands under a Bouchard administration.

I don't bring anything expensive to the dorms.

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

I just keep my cars to myself.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.