Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Love is inherently free. It cannot be bought, sold, or traded. Love is a force of nature. However much we may want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million… — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
“Those who claim to believe in liberal principals but advocate more and more confiscation of the wealth created by productive people, more… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“They'd close to two hours till dark and the expriest said so. They lay under the boardlike hide of a dead ox… — Cormac McCarthy 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
“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
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when… — Richard M. Nixon 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
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story 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
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image