“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
There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. — George Washington Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.” — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of he Haves over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster 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
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
“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
“The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“In the two years after No Logo came out, I went to dozens of teach-ins and conferences, some of them attended by… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be a channel for every free choice denied. Every porcelain bride with no property rights, you don't have… — Lauren Zuniga Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
“The basic political principle of the Objectivist ethics is: no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man—or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image