“If we are to live in peace and friendliness, each of us must be ready to leave in the hands of others all that belongs to them, and to be content with the full possession of what belongs to himself.”— Auberon Herbert
“The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property... Its mission is to protect persons and property.”— Frederic Bastiat
“The essence, and almost the quintessence, of good government is, to protect property and its rights.”— Fisher Ames
“The man who improves his farm is in all justice entitled to the full and entire benefit of his improvements.”— Isaac Butt
“The state has no right to own or to manage any kind of property. It is the creature of the individual, and its only business is to protect the individual.”— Auberon Herbert
“Taxation is the taking of a man's property against his consent; and if you take a man's property against his consent, you are committing a robbery.”— Auberon Herbert
“I'm not against people making money. I'm against people controlling what you do with your property.”— Jon Lech Johansen
“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
“For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man's home is his safest refuge].”— Edward Coke
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”— Adam Smith
“The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race.”— Thomas Spence
“The property is the personality. To have a personality, a man must have property.”— Norman O. Brown