It is as impossible to associate two proprietors as to join two magnets by their opposite poles.

Either society must perish, or it must destroy property.
If property is a natural, absolute, imprescriptible, and inalienable right, why, in all ages, has there been so much speculation as to its origin ?--for this is one of its distinguishing characteristics.

The origin of a natural right! Good God! who ever inquired into the origin of the rights of liberty, security, or equality?
They exist by the same right that we exist; they are born with us, they live and die with us.
With property it is very different, indeed.

By law, property can exist without a proprietor, like a quality without a subject.

It exists for the human being who as yet is not, and for the octogenarian who is no more.