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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. ↗

— James Madison

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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ↗

— Karl Marx

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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.' ↗

— Johann Most

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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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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

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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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