George Sutherland: "Bukan hak properti yang dilindungi, tetapi hak ata...

"Bukan hak properti yang dilindungi, tetapi hak atas properti. Properti, per se, tidak memiliki hak; tetapi individu - lelaki - memiliki tiga hak besar, sama sakralnya dari campur tangan sewenang-wenang: hak atas hidupnya, hak atas kebebasannya, hak atas harta miliknya. Ketiga hak itu begitu saling terikat sehingga pada hakikatnya satu hak. Memberi seseorang nyawanya selain menyangkal kebebasannya, berarti mengambil semua darinya yang membuat hidupnya layak untuk dijalani. Untuk memberinya kebebasan tetapi mengambil darinya properti yang merupakan buah dan lencana kebebasannya adalah tetap menjadi budak."

--- George Sutherland

Versi Bahasa Inggris

It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.