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There is compensation in all things.

— Anna Leonowens

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who…

— Henry Hazlitt

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just…

— Elton Gallegly

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare.…

— James Madison

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 administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to…

— Samuel Adams

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion,…

— Mancur Olson

Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding