Cost Quote by Thomas Sowell

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not…

— Robert Nozick

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no…

— Ayn Rand

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

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of…

— Lysander Spooner

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has…

— Abraham Lincoln

Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating…

— Robert Nozick

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

— Malalai Joya

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as…

— William O. Douglas

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to…

— Walter E. Williams

People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.

— Sara Evans

“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many…

— Paul Polman