| James Madison |  As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James Madison |
| James Madison | By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison |
| James Madison | I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison |
| James Madison | The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison |
| James Madison | The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison |
| James Madison | The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison |
| James Madison | 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.
James Madison |
| James Monroe | National honor is the national property of the highest value.
James Monroe |
| James Q. Wilson | I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
James Q. Wilson |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere |
| Jeffrey Donovan | I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.
Jeffrey Donovan |
| Jeffrey Sachs | We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Jeffrey Sachs |
| Jeremy Rifkin | They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
Jeremy Rifkin |
| Jim Doyle | Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.
Jim Doyle |
| Jim Ryun | In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
Jim Ryun |
| Jim Ryun | One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun |
| Jim Ryun | Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
Jim Ryun |
| Joan Rivers | I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property."
Joan Rivers |
| Johann Most | Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
Johann Most |
| Johann Most | He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Johann Most |
