Quotations about Property
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.
~Charles Dudley Warner
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Property is organized robbery. ~George Bernard Shaw
Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896
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. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Property is organized robbery. ~George Bernard Shaw
Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896
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. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”
Andrew Carnegie
“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”
John D. Rockefeller
“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
Shakespeare
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson
“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.”
Hebrew Proverb
“A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Andrew Carnegie
“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”
John D. Rockefeller
“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
Shakespeare
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson
“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.”
Hebrew Proverb
“A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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