Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington Copy Share Image
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private citizens over their property rights. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis Copy Share Image
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 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
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West… — Walter E. Williams 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
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Our system was not set up to for the government to be able to do with a man's kingdom what they want.… — Tit Elingtin Copy Share Image
“It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Those who claim to believe in liberal principals but advocate more and more confiscation of the wealth created by productive people, more… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under… — David Harvey 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
“Women are inherently crooked? Certainly some Muslim clerics think so—or at least, they do not believe in legal equality for women. Bangladeshi… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The “dual economy” paradigm, originally proposed in 1955 by Sir Arthur Lewis, still shapes the way that most social scientists think about… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... — Ayn Rand 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
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis 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 whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — Anonymous 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
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![“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade,"…” quote by Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b18/lawrence-lessig-3201_communication_that-tradition-is-the-way-our-culture-ge_1808381.jpg)
