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
“The Industrial Revolution started and made its biggest strides in England because of her uniquely inclusive economic institutions. These in turn were… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand 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
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
“Without the changes in political institutions and political power similar to those that emerged in England after 1688, there was little chance… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“many scientists have interfered with science in precisely the way courts always worried tissue donors might do. “It’s ironic,” she told me.… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“That the Open Society cannot exist without extensive individual property rights that clearly identify endowments and freedom to employ them does not… — Gerald F. Gaus Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams 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
“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
