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
“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.” — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom - let's keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats… — Lauren Boebert 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 invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system;… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo 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 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
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
“You don't have to be a channel for every free choice denied. Every porcelain bride with no property rights, you don't have… — Lauren Zuniga Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as… — David Boaz 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
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Peaceful protest is a protected right of all Americans. However, protesters must respect private property rights, court orders and law enforcement personnel. — Doug Burgum 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
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it… — Dan Glickman Copy Share Image
Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, permanent lunar bases will have to be anchored to permanent commercial facilities. Without property rights there will be no justification for… — Robert Bigelow 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
I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
![“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b11/christopher-hitchens-117_belief_concerning-monotheistic-religions-the-on_219156.jpg)
![“[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves…” quote by Murray Rothbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da4/murray-rothbard-1563_acting_t-he-crucial-question-is-not-as-so-many_2945660.jpg)
![“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under the rubric of ‘accumulation by dispossession’. By this I mean the continuation and proliferation of accumulation practices which Marx had…” quote by David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png)
![“I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he decided that his design was not being followed - which was a gross violation, by the way, of private property rights, because the building was his.” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/971/murray-bookchin-2587_admiration_i-have-an-admiration-even-though-i-m-not_1419659.png)
