In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
In its present terms, the global system values property over human life. — William Greider Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.” — Michael Simpson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united… — Daniel Guerin Copy Share Image
I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The paramount problem... is how to make this new form of property ownership a workable agent toward repeopleizing the proprietorship of the… — Peter S. Grosscup Copy Share Image
The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business,… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,'… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image