Top 60 Private Property Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Private Property Quotes from famous people such as Daniel De Leon, Adam Smith, William Blackstone, Rashida Tlaib, Ted Wheeler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his powe

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone
Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.
Rashida Tlaib
Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting, and damaging public and private property.
Ted Wheeler
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.
Matt Cartwright
Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, ‘Okay, the Soviet Union isn’t working.’ They would say, ‘No, it’s great. We just need democracy, political pluralism, private property.’ And then there was no Soviet Union. The European Union is the same.
Marine Le Pen
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
John L. Lewis
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Elton Gallegly
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, ‘Okay, the Soviet Union isn’t working.’ They would say, ‘No, it’s great. We just need democracy, political pluralism, private property.’ And then there was no Soviet Union. The European Union is the same.
Marine Le Pen
We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we’ve become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we’re less attuned to the nuances of the public.
Elizabeth Diller
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
Jim Ryun
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
June Jordan
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there’s no such thing as private property rights. You can’t own a piece of the spectrum.
Adrian Cronauer
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.
Luther Strange
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Ludwig von Mises
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
Terry Eagleton
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais
People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
Mencius
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family’s income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.
Ash Sarkar
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
Barbara Castle
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett Hardin
He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.
Dixie Lee Ray
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
Michael Bloomberg
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
Barbara Castle
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
June Jordan
People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
Mencius
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
Jim Ryun
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressin

As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.
Ash Sarkar
Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.
Thomas Piketty
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
Jim Ryun
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there’s no such thing as private property rights. You can’t own a piece of the spectrum.
Adrian Cronauer
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.
Luther Strange
My District is all too familiar with federal government attempts to seize control of private property and private water rights.
Lauren Boebert
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
Terry Eagleton
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
Joseph Story
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
George Bernard Shaw
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.
Matt Cartwright
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
Zach Wamp
The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.
Vladimir Bukovsky
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
Dixie Lee Ray
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Ludwig von Mises
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
Michael Bloomberg
The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country’s conservatives look with suspicion on any policy that seems to prevent people from doing what they will with what is theirs.
Roger Scruton
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively ‘peaceful’ the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.
Murray Rothbard
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Elton Gallegly