Amit Shah Quotes

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

As regards the land or place in Africa, whatever such land ... anyone may hold, possess, or have the usufruct of, as if this land or place had been publicly owned.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

If we ever owned the land we own it still, for we never sold it.

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

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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

… the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

It is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.

Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting land rights, including customary rights and common property resources.

I don't support deed transfer of lands.

Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor's, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

Each landless citizen may occupy and appropriate a small allotment of the National Domain free of charge.

The shortage of land is due less to purchase by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population. The Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought.

Each Servant has then also a Right to take up fifty Acres of Land, where he can find any unpatented [unowned]: But that is no great Privilege, for any one may have as good a right for a piece of Eight

Whoever shall settle any Colonie out of the limits of the Manhattes Island, shall be obliged to satisfy the Indians for the land they shall settle upon

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

Any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the first January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim