#property

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

#aspect #assumes #classes #doubt #favor

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

#faculties #first #government #insuperable #interests

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

— James Madison

#instituted #objects #persons #property #protection

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. ↗

— John McCain

#believe #campaign #campaign contributions #contributions #dearly

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#defining #estate #intellectual #intellectual property #kind

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

#exist #his #into #just #keep

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.' ↗

— Joan Rivers

#hell #her #house #i #mother-in-law

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

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

— e. e. cummings

#had #his #instant #mind #own

Property has its duties as well as its rights. ↗

— Thomas Drummond

#property #rights #well