A magistrate issuing his warrants to a press-gang would be in his proper functions in Turkey or Indostan, under appellations proverbial of the most complete despotism. That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties and free choice of their occupations which not only constitute their property in the general sense of the word, but are the means of acquiring property strictly so called. March 27th, 1792. From the Works of Madison, Vol. Abraham Lincoln, on Property 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. I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy.