The airwaves should belong to the people. If a TV signal comes trespassing onto my property, I should be free to do any damn thing I want with it, and it's none of the government's business.
Anonymous, quoted by Charles Platt in 'Satellite Pirate', Wired magazine August 1994
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Aristotle
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Drummond, Letter to Earl of Donoughmore, 22 May 1838
Well, some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, Ch. 2
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
`Very haughty!' he said, `the wild Buccaneer.'
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property, Pt I. Ch. 1