Civil rights Quote by Walter E. Williams

“It is only when people have rights of property, and can freely exchange what they own for what they need, that a society of…

— Roger Scruton

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...

— Ayn Rand

The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control…

— Hilaire Belloc

It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would…

— Pope Leo XIII

It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold…

— Ronald Reagan

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the…

— Winston Churchill

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to…

— Ayn Rand

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

— Mencius

Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run…

— Leonard Peikoff

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams