Anthony Trollope Quotes

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

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.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

The doctrine of state ownership of land … is the exact opposite of the regime of free trade. The doctrine of state ownership should not be allowed to prevail ...

[Urging a referendum:] The issue of private ownership of land is too critical a decision to be left to the government.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Property is a nuisance.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

The fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to none.

Wherever Plenty’s crop invites Our pitiful brigades, Lurk cannoneers of Vested Rights, Juristic ambuscades;

There is and can be no just title to an exclusive possession of the soil.

No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use.

The small land holders are the most precious part of a state.

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth for the land is our mother… How can one man say it belongs only to him?

The only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property.

Sell a country? why not sell the air, the clouds ….

Exclusive property is a theft in nature.