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is a natural right and essential component of freedom in that it gives individuals a sense they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of. Milton Friedman

is an object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

is any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by a against the cupidity of b.

is essential to manhood. A man who does not own a piece of land is not a complete [secure] man.

A man who does not own a piece of land is not a complete [secure] man. Talmud, Yebamot 63a

is a perversity. To see the soil as property is to deform the landscape and to degrade husbandry. The farmer, under the sway of this understanding of property, leads the meanest of lives, seeing nature as only a robber.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. Henry David Thoreau

is dishonest whenver it is disproportionate to the labor spent on it.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. Leo Tolstoy

is that for whose security government is instituted. Government is thus for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. Adam Smith

is shackles. He who owns little is little owned.

He who owns little is little owned. Henry David Thoreau

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