Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Property is a nuisance.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.