Property Rights Protection Quotes

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... … Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence, without conflict, within the context of the law, bearing in mind the interests of all Zimbabweans both black and white. It's necessary that the Zimbabwean government to respond positively to those sorts of messages.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

While property may he regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will he recognized as a taking.