Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting,… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for… — Huldrych Zwingli 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
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
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only… — Winston Churchill 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
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in… — Peter S. Grosscup 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
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure… — Pope Pius XII 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
“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
“Anarcho-syndicalists, also known as “anarchists” or “libertarian syndicalists”, believe that power corrupts and that economic, social and political privilege flows from the… — Nicholas Whitlam Copy Share Image
“[T]he power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did… — Winstanley Copy Share Image
“No, plenty for all is not a dream – though it was a dream indeed in those days when man, for all… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“In principle the human productive community may be constituted in either of two ways. First, it may be consciously regulated. Whether its… — Rudolph Hiferding Copy Share Image
“THE CONTRAST OF South and North Korea, and of the United States and Latin America, illustrates a general principle. Inclusive economic institutions… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
“Fair enough.” I managed a nod. “Still, you shouldn’t be up here.” “It’s a free country.” “It’s a capitalist country and this… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children?… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Peaceful protest is a protected right of all Americans. However, protesters must respect private property rights, court orders and law enforcement personnel. — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“A New York banker toasted the Supreme Court in 1895: “I give you, gentlemen, the Supreme Court of the United States—guardian of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“It meant simply that the state could not, except in unusual circumstances, confiscate a citizen’s private property or tell him what to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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