"A right to property is founded in..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”

“All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.”

“When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.”

“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

“Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.”

“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”

“If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!”

“When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.”

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”