It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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.
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