“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production.… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love,… — Luisa Capetillo Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The success of Communism naturally depends on altering human nature because few things are more inherent in human nature than the ownership… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It’s difficult to take oneself with sufficient seriousness to begin any sentence with the words “Thou shalt not.” But who cannot summon… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country's conservatives look with suspicion on… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We also understand, therefore, that wages and private property are identical. Indeed, where the product, as the object of labor, pays for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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