Anthony Trollope Quotes

Without land we are not secure. The reason I am saying land is important, is that when you look at the trees, you feel satisfied. Not because you have eaten, but because it is your land. Without land you are like a bird that is flying from one place to another without a nest. That is why land is important.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

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

There was one feature [the Jubilee] peculiar to this state [the Hebrew Republic] and of great importance in retaining the affections of its citizens, and checking all thoughts of desertion, or abandonment of the country: namely self-interest, the strength and life of all human action. This was particularly engaged in the Hebrew State, for nowhere else did citizens possess their goods so securely as did the subjects of this community for the latter were owners of their plots of ground in perpetuity.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

The insecurity of property in Ireland, whether real or supposed … prevents the English or Scotch capitalist from transmitting materials to be manufactured in Ireland.

Property is proper to man.

If any man was compelled by poverty to sell his farm or his pasture, he received it back again intact at the year of the Jubilee.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

It's great to have a home and everything else that comes with it.

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

... to teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every form of government...to teach the duty of government, to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

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

Government in this country is made up of the landed interest, which alone has the right to be represented. As for the rabble, who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them? What security for the payment of their taxes? They may pack up all their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling of an eye.

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.

Our boasted freedom necessarily involves slavery, so long as we recognize private property in land. Until that is abolished, Declarations of Independence and Acts of Emancipation are in vain.