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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

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

Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

It's important to understand your ownership pattern because it is an expression of the values that guide your life. The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

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

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the 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.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.