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• Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

  Max Stirner

  Law, Grace, Fiction

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• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Government, Ends

  1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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• Where there is no property there is no injustice.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Justice, Injustice

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Mean, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

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• 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.

  Herbert Spencer

  Desire, Elements, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.110, VM eBooks

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• 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.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Country, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• 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

  Money, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, Justice, Black History

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• 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.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beauty, Men, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, Liberty, Together

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

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• By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Aggression, Humans

  "The Major Works of Sigmund Freud".

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• If a man owns land,
  the land owns him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.376

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• 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

  Country, Men, Economic Inequality

  Adam Smith (1814). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan”, p.80

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• Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

  Karl Marx

  Love, Philosophical, Men

  Karl Marx (2007). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

  William Howard Taft

  Race, Civilization, Presidential

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Investing, Buffets

  "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist". Book by Roger Lowenstein, 1995.

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Long, Belief

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Real, Ninety, Estates

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• Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Land, Form

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1970). “The people's rights”, Jonathan Cape

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• Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

  Robert G. Allen

  Real, Waiting, Estates

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

  Henry George

  Men, Titles, Doe

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Rights, Poverty, Duty

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• Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Mind, Politics

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.276, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Carpe Diem, Fruit

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