Benefits Quote by John Stossel

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

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

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal…

— Richard Allen Epstein

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are…

— Thomas Piketty

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of…

— Tom Bethell

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

— Ron Paul

“Private property and capitalism also provide strong incentives to preserve resources for the future, whereas political resource allocation under democracy tends toward immediate gratification.”

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

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

[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

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only…

— Henry Calvert Simons

“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the…

— Elaine Bernard