Best Property Rights Quotes

49 Property Rights quotes by 41 unique authors

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits… — Malcolm Wallop
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one… — Niall Ferguson
People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty pledge, who won't… — Matt Shea
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. — Richard Allen Epstein
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — William Eldridge Odom
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that… — Jeffrey Sachs
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the… — Adrian Cronauer
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,. — Chris Cannon
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under… — Theodore Roosevelt
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled… — Ron Paul
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. — Calvin Coolidge
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage… — Harvey Fierstein
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. — Garrett Hardin
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do… — Thomas Sowell
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. — Spider Robinson
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion… — Alan Greenspan
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. — Jim Oberweis
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of he Haves over the human rights of… — David Korten
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in… — Don Rose

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