“The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it… — Murray N. Rothbard 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
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
“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
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
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
“There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a… — James Wood Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and… — Ron Paul 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
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then… — Banksy 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
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image