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

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

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

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

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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.