Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation. — Steve Symms Copy Share Image
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a… — James Wood Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Except for spending to protect property rights, enforce the law, and protect citizens from foreign aggressors, all government spending crowds out private… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Do we want to live in a cosmetically updated version of midcentury Virginia, in a country that so elevates property rights as… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S.… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
“A country with secure property rights, scientific inquiry and technological innovation will become richer. But, since division of labour is limited by… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That the Open Society cannot exist without extensive individual property rights that clearly identify endowments and freedom to employ them does not… — Gerald F. Gaus Copy Share Image
“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“To Tarzan of the Apes the expedition was in the nature of a holiday outing. His civilization was at best but an… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
![“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b11/christopher-hitchens-117_belief_concerning-monotheistic-religions-the-on_219156.jpg)
![“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade,"…” quote by Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b18/lawrence-lessig-3201_communication_that-tradition-is-the-way-our-culture-ge_1808381.jpg)
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