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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. -- Calvin Coolidge
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. -- George Washington
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. -- Potter Stewart
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. -- Garrett Hardin
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. -- Adrian Cronauer
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. -- Thomas Sowell
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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. -- David Korten
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented. -- Michael Heizer
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. -- Malcolm Wallop
Without property rights, no other rights are possible. -- Ayn Rand
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. -- Abraham Lincoln
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. -- William Odom
There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights. -- Ayn Rand
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation. -- Steve Symms
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,. -- Chris Cannon
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. -- Alan Greenspan
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens. -- Florence Earle Coates
The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature. -- Gary Morris
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions. -- Theodore Roosevelt
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish. -- Christopher Hitchens
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. -- Jim Oberweis
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights. -- Edmund Phelps
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. -- William Odom
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. -- Ernest Istook
A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions. -- Edmund Phelps
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them. -- Dan Glickman
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries. -- Dave Brat
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights. -- Don Rose
Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind. -- Viet D. Dinh
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife. -- Harvey Fierstein
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. -- Spider Robinson
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners. -- Barry Goldwater
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property. -- Noam Chomsky
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure. -- Neal Boortz
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... -- Ayn Rand
The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights. -- Liu Junning
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . -- Jeannette Rankin
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws -- Voltaire
We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons. -- Calvin Coolidge
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. -- Ilana Mercer
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. -- William Blackstone
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. -- James Madison
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. -- Richard Allen Epstein
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. -- Ayn Rand
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society. -- Daron Acemoglu
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. -- James Madison
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. -- Dick Gregory
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. -- Kevin Carson
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties. -- Todd Young
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. -- Ayn Rand
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it. -- James Boswell
The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen. -- Susette La Flesche
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. -- Alex Kozinski
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq. -- Ernest Istook
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. -- Thomas Paine
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. -- Jesse Lee Peterson
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In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. -- Mark Skousen
Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people. -- Ilana Mercer
We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort. -- James Madison
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. -- Sheldon Richman
[.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights -- Kent Hovind
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property. -- Walter E. Williams
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. -- Robert H. Frank
It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights." -- Richard M. Nixon
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly. -- Stefan Molyneux

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