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Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

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

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.