Best Property Rights Quotes

That government is best which governs least.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there’s no such thing as private property rights. You can’t own a piece of the spectrum.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily ‘private’ owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called ‘government’; there are only people forming themselves into groups called ‘governments’ and acting in a ‘governmental’ manner. All property is therefore always ‘private’; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of ‘the Haves’ over the human rights of ‘the Have Nots’ is inevitably called into serious question.

Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one’s own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn’t violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We couldn’t curb congestion or pollution or build and maintain public infrastructure.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It’s getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

We’re taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don’t feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations – the rules of the game, so to speak – and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.