Capitalism Quote by Ayn Rand

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social…

— Ayn Rand

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

— Ludwig von Mises

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who…

— Thomas Sowell

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

— Abraham Lincoln

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its…

— Anonymous

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the…

— Peter Singer

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and…

— Richard M. Nixon

“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be…

— Walter Lippmann

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison