"Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood."
- Russian Proverb

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending, or the taxation of labor."
- John Ruskin

"A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself."
- Lord Henry P. Brougham

"The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man owns land, the land owns him."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land."
- Oscar Wilde

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
- Aldo Leopold

"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people."
- Chief Seattle

"By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression."
- Sigmund Freud

"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
- e.e. cummings

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned."
- Alexis de Tocqueville

"No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
- Walter Lippmann

"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
- John Locke

"Property is organized robbery."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
- Calvin Coolidge

"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

"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race."
- Taft, William Howard

"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
- Charles Dudley Warner

"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
- Rachel Carson
Author, Silent Spring

"Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from The Ancient Mariner, Part II.

"A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will."
- John Heywood
from Proverbes, Part I, Chapter XI.