Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

If a man own land, the land owns him. Now let him leave home, if he dare.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Of all obstacles to that complete democracy of which we dream, is there a greater than property?

The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.

What we call real estate-the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.