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Property Quotes


"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."


"I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation."


"I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked."


"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."


"Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution."


"I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania."



"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."


"I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone."


"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."


"He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property."
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