Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Except for spending to protect property rights, enforce the law, and protect citizens from foreign aggressors, all government spending crowds out private… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract,” he noted, “to require that when men receive from government the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[…] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The modern left proves how prescient the Framers were. The left’s class warfare strategies mean that election campaigns are actually conducted against… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“THE CONTRAST OF South and North Korea, and of the United States and Latin America, illustrates a general principle. Inclusive economic institutions… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
When it comes to China, there are genuine giants that need to be conquered and dragons to tame. Protecting intellectual property rights… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been… — Don Rose Copy Share Image
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