Land Security Quotes

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

This demand for fixity of tenure is not, as is often supposed, a mere cry of disaffected and impracticable Socialists. It springs from a vague but true perception of the causes of the depression under which the agricultural interest, and with it the whole prosperity of Ireland, labors

One does not sell the land upon which the people walk.

All lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.

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.

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

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

Establishment of the Muslim community on an area of land is a necessity, as vital as water and air.

Not on my watch will we sell or transfer our public lands.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

… there is such a general scarcity of Cash that nothing We have will Command it & Real Estates of Every kind are falling at least one half in value. Debtors that were a year or two ago responsible for £1000 can not now Raise a fourth part of the sum & those who had putt out their money upon Land Security of double the value are unable to get the principal as there is an Entire Stop to all sales by the sheriff for want of Buyers and Men of the best Estates amongst us can Scarce Raise money enough to defray the Necessary Expenses of their family’s. Our Stores in the Country that used to furnish Every necessary for the inhabitants are all shut up

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Responsibility for the security of the land of Israel will remain in the hands of the IDF and the IDF alone.

What I like about land is I can drive out and check on it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's hard to steal land.

Without land, we are condemned to death. No one will accept that. Families will fight. We prefer to die rather than live without land.

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

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

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.