Freedom Quote by Gustave de Molinari

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

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop…

— Pope Pius XII

[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…

— Murray Rothbard

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

— Roger Scruton

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when…

— R. H. Tawney

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

— Karl Marx

“I’ve never understood who owns public property—whether it’s the taxpayers, the government, or the person who uses it.”

— S.W. Southwick

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people…

— Tom Bethell

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

— Thomas Jefferson

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

— Paul Erdos