On property.

“If the world went to hell in a handbasket—as it seemed to be doing—you could say goodbye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it.” —Jeannette Walls

“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property.” —g.k. chesterton “fifty percent of something is better than A hundred percent of nothing.” —chuck barris

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.” —cormac mccarthy

“Few things in my life have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.” —Harriet martineau

“land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.” —margaret mitchell

“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it—for a little while.” —Willa cather

“it turn might out that without the right to possess, we are not really sure we have the right to speak and to be.” —arthur miller

“A human being needs only A small plot of ground on which to be happy And even less to lie beneath.” —Johann Wolfgang von goethe

“If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.” —William blake

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm it had in pursuit.” —Pliny the younger

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.” —James madison

“Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the lord your god is giving you to possess.” —deuteronomy 19:14

“A home of one’s own is realizing the American dream. The fact that homeownership mostly turns out to be a good investment makes for added happiness.” —malcolm Forbes