“Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and I’m like this is private property and if you don’t leave I will call the police.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“Without getting rid of the capitalists, without abolishing the principle of private property in the means of production, it is impossible to create planned economy.”— Joseph Stalin, newstatesman.com
“Never build something where you don’t own the land underneath. They can take it away at any time.”— Meyer Lansky, thestar.com
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com