Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private… — Barry Asmus 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
“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 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
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful to our educational institutions and to the political intelligence of Americans, that in discussion of the notorious "Moscow trials,"… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Straining to hear, I can make out something acoustic. Coming from...the backyard? I glance down from my bedroom window and feel my… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One… — Elaine Bernard Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that… — Aristotle 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
“The government in North Korea is a communist dictatorship opposed to private property and markets. But it is difficult to control black… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. — Kingsley Wood Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image