Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

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

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

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

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

Much of the existing wealth of this country takes the form of rights that do not fall within traditional common-law concepts of property.

Make no mistake. Without individual property, none are free.

The law may do what it will with the owner of property, its just power will still attach to the cent.

It should never be forgotten that protection to property and to persons cannot be separated.

The right to private property is valid, but all private property is under a "social mortgage.

An intellectual property worker will take copyright protection on everything he can get.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

… there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

You see, what makes us different than the rest of the world fundamentally is our American respect and legal appreciation of individual rights and individual property. And, I emphasize - individual.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.