Famous quotes about property rights

“Where there is no private ownership, individuals cannot be held accountable for their use of resources.” — Elinor Ostrom

“Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.” — John Adams

“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” — John Locke

“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.” — Abraham Lincoln

“A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of others.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” — Frédéric Bastiat

“The protection of property rights is the foundation of a free and prosperous society.” — Friedrich Hayek

“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” — Mark Twain

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” — John Adams

“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” — Karl Marx

“Property does not have rights. People have rights.” — Potter Stewart

“Where there is no property, there is no injustice.” — John Locke

“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.” — John Jay

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.” — John Adams

“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.” — Walter Lippmann

“Property rights are essential to human freedom.” — Milton Friedman

“The protection of private property is one of the main objects of government.” — William Blackstone

“Property is theft.” — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Property is the basis of all power.” — David Hume

“When the state takes over the means of production, it takes over property rights.” — Ludwig von Mises