Here are some interesting statements that support what you say.
"No other rights are safe where property is not safe." -- Daniel Webster
"The right of distribution over private property is the essence of freedom." -- Merrill Jenkins
"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government,that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own....
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. 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 compleat despotism."
James Madison
When John Locke wrote of basic rights in his Two Treatises of Government, he emphasized three: Life, liberty, and property. The Founding Fathers used Locke's concepts as the basis of rational government, but in the wake of Britain's prohibitive taxes on rum, tea, and paper, Thomas Jefferson used the more inclusive wording of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. But that was largely a rhetorical flourish; property rights are central to the U.S. philosophy of law. That is why the Third Amendment prohibits the government from forcing citizens to quarter soldiers. That is why the Fourth Amendment--which guarantees citizens "[t]he right ... to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects"--prohibits warrantless searches. According to Locke, and the Founding Fathers who used his work as the basis for U.S. law, the legitimate function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property.
