Jack Valenti Quotes

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

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

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

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers.

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

The prime element of the value of property is the knowledge that its peaceful use will be defended by government.

Because the rights to possessions are not adequately documented, assets cannot readily be turned into capital, cannot be traded outside of narrow, local circles where people know and trust each other, cannot be used as collateral for a loan, and cannot be used as a share against an investment.

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

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

Private property is a creature of society, and is subject to the calls of that society, wherever its necessities shall require it…

Property is proper to man.

From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Possession is eleven points in the law.