“Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.” — David T. Dellinger Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation. — Steve Symms Copy Share Image
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“When Ala-ud-din Khilji, a fourteenth-century Muslim ruler in India, wanted to overtax his wealthy Hindu subjects, he was dissuaded by his top… — Mustafa Akyol 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
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for… — Chris Cannon Copy Share Image
“Do we want to live in a cosmetically updated version of midcentury Virginia, in a country that so elevates property rights as… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in… — John Adams 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
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard 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 Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our… — Gary Morris Copy Share Image
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go… — Scott McNealy 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
“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
“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett 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
It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland 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
“Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a technology that was both… — James Boyle 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
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