Best Property Rights Quotes
49 Property Rights quotes by 41 unique authors
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The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
— Potter Stewart
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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
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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
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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
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The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
— Richard Allen Epstein
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The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
— William Eldridge Odom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
— Calvin Coolidge
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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
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
— Garrett Hardin
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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
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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.
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Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.
— Spider Robinson
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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
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I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
— Jim Oberweis
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Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
— Ernest Istook
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Property Rights Quotes
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