I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
“In the view of the Kochs and other members of the Libertarian Party, government should be reduced to a skeletal function: the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We… — Robert H. Frank 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
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society. — Daron Acemoglu Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in… — Richard White Copy Share Image
Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand… — Arthur Miller 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 was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common… — Peter Vallentyne Copy Share Image
I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it… — Dan Glickman Copy Share Image
“Everyone should feel comfortable they are going to remain in their homes until their dying days. We should never be uneasy or… — Tit Elingtin Copy Share Image
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand 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
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton 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
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers… — Charles W. Johnson Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“We believe that liberty of religious faith is the first and foremost freedom in human society, is a universal value in the… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
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