QUOTES THAT RELATE TO BLACKFEET PROPERTY RIGHTS
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
-Charles Evans Hughes
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
-Thomas Jefferson
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
-Jack Kemp
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
-James Madison
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
-Frederick Douglass
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
-John Ruskin
While Congress can’t overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
-Stephanie Herseth
Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.
-Mark Twain
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
-James Madison
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
-Samuel Adams
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
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
-Frederic Bastiat
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
-John Locke
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
-John Locke
National honor is the natural property of the highest value.
-James Monroe
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
-John Jay
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
-William Weld
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
-Ernest Istook
Part of the American dream is to own your own property – something no one can take from you.
-Henry Bonilla
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
-Cathy McMorris
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
-Anatoly Chubais
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
-Walter Lippman
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
-John Adams
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
-Jim Ryan
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
-William Blackstone
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
-Edward Coke
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
-James Madison
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
-Elton Gallegly
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
-James Madison
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
-John Adams
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.
-Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
-Justice William O. Douglas
Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, ‘I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive?’ He hides behind pretended family responsibility, failing to see that the most glorious legacy that we can bequeath to our posterity is liberty!
-W. Vaughn Ellsworth
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce
call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin
Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.
-David Friedman
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
-Milton Friedman
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
-J. Paul Getty
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
-Fredrich August von Hayek
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
-Justice Robert H. Jackson
Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.
-Kentucky Declaration of Rights-Article I, Section 2
From this view of the subject, it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, by which I mean a society, consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will in almost every case, be felt by the majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
-James Madison
A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.
-James Madison
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.
-James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
-Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.
-Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.
-James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 10, 1788
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.
-Nathan Hale, remark to Captain William Hull, who had attempted to dissuade him from volunteering for a spy mission for General Washington, September, 1776
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
-Patrick Henry, letter to Robert Pleasants, January 18, 1773
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.
-Samuel Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, November 27, 1780
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
-Charles Evans Hughes
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
-Thomas Jefferson
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
-Jack Kemp
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
-James Madison
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
-Frederick Douglass
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
-John Ruskin
While Congress can’t overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
-Stephanie Herseth
Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.
-Mark Twain
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
-James Madison
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
-Samuel Adams
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
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
-Frederic Bastiat
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
-John Locke
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
-John Locke
National honor is the natural property of the highest value.
-James Monroe
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
-John Jay
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
-William Weld
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
-Ernest Istook
Part of the American dream is to own your own property – something no one can take from you.
-Henry Bonilla
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
-Cathy McMorris
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
-Anatoly Chubais
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
-Walter Lippman
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
-John Adams
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
-Jim Ryan
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
-William Blackstone
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
-Edward Coke
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
-James Madison
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
-Elton Gallegly
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
-James Madison
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
-John Adams
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.
-Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
-Justice William O. Douglas
Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, ‘I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive?’ He hides behind pretended family responsibility, failing to see that the most glorious legacy that we can bequeath to our posterity is liberty!
-W. Vaughn Ellsworth
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce
call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin
Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.
-David Friedman
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
-Milton Friedman
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
-J. Paul Getty
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
-Fredrich August von Hayek
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
-Justice Robert H. Jackson
Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.
-Kentucky Declaration of Rights-Article I, Section 2
From this view of the subject, it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, by which I mean a society, consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will in almost every case, be felt by the majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
-James Madison
A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.
-James Madison
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.
-James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
-Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.
-Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.
-James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 10, 1788
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.
-Nathan Hale, remark to Captain William Hull, who had attempted to dissuade him from volunteering for a spy mission for General Washington, September, 1776
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
-Patrick Henry, letter to Robert Pleasants, January 18, 1773
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.
-Samuel Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, November 27, 1780
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