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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

— James Madison

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

— Calvin Coolidge

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

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

— John Marshall Harlan

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

— Joseph Priestley

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

— William Godwin

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.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

— Lysander Spooner

✗Opposing Perspectives

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

— Potter Stewart

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

— William H. Seward