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Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free."
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them. — Sigrid Undset

The spirit of commerce ... renders every man willing to live on his own property ... & prevents the growth of luxury. — Baron De Montesquieu

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor. — Adolphe Thiers

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. — Ludwig Von Mises

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. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state. — Benjamin Franklin

The property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised. — Michel De Montaigne

What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it. — Thomas Paine

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. — Samuel Butler

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. — James Madison

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor. — John Galt

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. — James Madison

The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Every man in my organization knows you and understands that you're my personal property, — Janet Evanovich

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up. — Esther Forbes

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. — William H. Seward

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. — Pope Leo XIII

The man who has half a million of dollars in property ... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property. — Noah Webster

For how can a man without property know the ache of ownership? — John Steinbeck

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. — Oscar Wilde

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. — Francois Rabelais

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation. — James Otis

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property. — Confucius

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder. — Thomas Paine

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. — Thomas Carlyle

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci

Existence, faculties, assimilation - in other words, personality, liberty, property - this is man. — Frederic Bastiat

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone. — Sophocles

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength. — Voltaire

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. — Robert Dale Owen

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character. — Booker T. Washington

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man. — Fanny Brice

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property. — Thomas Paine

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely. — George Sweeting

It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. — Victor Hugo

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit. — Mark Twain

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

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe. — Daniel Webster

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.). — Sarah Vowell

Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were. — William Faulkner

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. — Heinrich Heine

Every man's disease is his personal property. — Alonzo M. Clark

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Gideon John Tucker

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man. — Henry George

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. — Adam Smith

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. — Zora Neale Hurston

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. — Theodore Roosevelt

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property. — Mark Twain

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. — James Madison