Classical liberalism Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

— Ludwig von Mises

“But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on…

— Frederick Engels Karl Marx

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

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or…

— Edmund Fawcett

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to…

— George Bernard Shaw

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate and selfish…

— Thomas Hodgskin

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

— Henry Parry Liddon

“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many conservatives have…

— Roger Scruton

“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and services.”

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo