If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

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.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

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

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

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.