Property rights Quotes

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

— Spider Robinson

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

— Alan Greenspan

There was no one left to speak for me

— Martin Niemoller

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

— John Adams

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

— Thomas Jefferson

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

— Ayn Rand

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

— Calvin Coolidge

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

— Ayn Rand

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less…

— Alexander Hamilton

Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private citizens over their property rights.

— Anna Paulina Luna

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

— Jim Oberweis

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

— George Washington

“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and…

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

— Ernest Istook

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

— Frederick Douglass

For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over…

— Michel Chossudovsky

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place…

— Thomas Jefferson

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there…

— John Adams

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure…

— Richard Pipes

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of he Haves over the…

— David Korten

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy…

— Thomas Jefferson

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the…

— Alex Kozinski

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

— Garrett Hardin

“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

“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

The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people…

— Mark Steyn

Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital…

— Eric Kierans

In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property…

— James Madison

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his…

— John Locke

“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand…

— Arthur Miller

Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp…

— John Locke

“To Tarzan of the Apes the expedition was in the nature of a holiday outing. His civilization was at best but an…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…

— Rush Limbaugh

“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition…

— Lawrence Lessig

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as…

— Ward Churchill

“out of informal learning communities if they fail to meet our needs; we enjoy no such mobility in our relations to formal…

— Henry Jenkins

“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

“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

“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