Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom - let's keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and… — Peter Heather Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system;… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The modern left proves how prescient the Framers were. The left’s class warfare strategies mean that election campaigns are actually conducted against… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then… — Banksy Copy Share Image
It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
“out of informal learning communities if they fail to meet our needs; we enjoy no such mobility in our relations to formal… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
