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I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

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

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.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.