Amendments Quote by Elton Gallegly

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional aking would be if…

— Michael Kinsley

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even…

— Benjamin Franklin

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if…

— Michael Kinsley

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

— Ayn Rand

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

— James Otis

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping the disinherited…

— Ricardo Flores Magon

Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns…

— Jonah Goldberg

No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.

— Prashant Bhushan

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

— Gary Sheffield

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton