Bankruptcy Quote by Louis O. Kelso

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 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

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

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

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

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market,…

— John Stossel

When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same…

— Louis O. Kelso

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

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 redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.”

— Gustave de Molinari

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

— Anatoly Chubais

[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