Coerce Quote by Lysander Spooner

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of…

— Lysander Spooner

Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood;…

— Pope Pius XI

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at…

— Thomas Sowell

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals…

— Pope Pius XI

“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and…

— Carl Safina

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

— David Brin

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

“We're compensated metaphysically with the absolute freedom to define and pursue whatever it is we believe will make our lives worthwhile- a dubious birthright…

— Chris Chester

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal…

— Joseph Priestley

“We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to…

— William Faulkner

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is…

— Thomas Woods