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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.


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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted ...
ERNEST ISTOOK Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individ...
ROBERT D. KAPLAN Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function i...
THOMAS SOWELL It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wi...
THOMAS SOWELL For a country founded on property rights, this is a terrible blow.
DEBORAH PRYCE It's just a property rights issue, that's all.
DON HAZELTON Property rights is a huge issue for me,
BOB GIBBS The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Gove...
JAMES MADISON None of the property rights that we have is absolute,
ALLAN WOLF We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American...
MALCOLM WALLOP My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches...
CHARLES A. BEARD Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties...
AYN RAND The common law system in which the law is continually reinterpreted by judges ends up protecting pro...
FREDERIC MISHKIN Creating false distinctions between human rights and property rights plays into the hands of Democra...
WALTER WILLIAMS As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his r...
JAMES MADISON Open source software does not today respect the intellectual property rights of any intellectual pro...
STEVE BALLMER It's a great day for private-property rights in the state of Arizona.
JENNIFER BARNETT It's a great day for private property rights in the state of Arizona.
JENNIFER BARNETT The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
WILLIAM ODOM We just disagree that the business community's private property rights trumps my Second Amendment ri...
REP. DENNIS BAXLEY The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta...
DON HELLER Starbucks is very respectful of the court's decision, as it demonstrates the importance of protectin...
CHRISTINE DAY Right now, animals are generally considered property. Animals do not have rights in the sense that h...
ERIC SANDGREN A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
EDMUND PHELPS Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong...
RICHARD SCAIFE All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
VOLTAIRE Property has its duties as well as its rights.
THOMAS BRUMMOND Property has its duties as well as its rights.
THOMAS DRUMMOND Economic, social and cultural rights are often overlooked when we are seeing rights through a politi...
JOSEPH SCHECHLA You can't attract capital investment from outside Iraq unless you have a constitution in place, a ru...
STEVE KING Few, if any, landowners in Montana are asked to give up property rights in exchange for hypothetical...
DAVID BLAIR The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private p...
ADRIAN CRONAUER We've got a deed restriction on all of the private property at the airport that they can't store or ...
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HELEN MIRREN It's a good compromise. It safeguards the rights of all South Carolina property owners and keeps und...
MARK NIX We feel vindicated. The judge made a courageous decision. It's a victory for property rights in Geor...
MARK MEEKS Senator Crapo's contribution to property rights is like Britain's contribution to fine cuisine - a c...
DAVID RIDENOUR I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
JIM OBERWEIS It strikes a much-needed balance between public interest and private property rights.
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DENNIS FERNANDEZ This is an effort to prevent software piracy at source. These policies will strengthen the protectio...
WANG ZIQIANG In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the prop...
DAVID KORTEN Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The residents here, they kind of see their rights as property owners being totally ignored in the pr...
GERRY RENO The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, ...
JAMES MADISON The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, ...
JAMES MADISON In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some pro...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Whatever action the Senate takes on ESA reform should reflect the national, bipartisan outcry for st...
DAVID RIDENOUR It is time for Virginia to step up to the plate and protect private property rights from government ...
BILL CLEVELAND The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an i...
JAMES MADISON He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a r...
JOHANN MOST Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND I hate to see the individual property owner get hurt. People had certain rights when they bought the...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United Sta...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE We knew that the property was too valuable for the township to buy and that the property owner does ...
STEVE SANTARSIERO The city seized my property in eminent domain to widen 4th Avenue. Now I'm paying rent on property I...
JOHN KNIGHT China has not lived up to its responsibility to effectively enforce intellectual property rights.
CHRIS ISRAEL It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilat...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY I am a true constitutionalist, and whether it is our state's rights, personal property rights or...
MIKE BOUCHARD We're opposed to it, across the board. It's a property rights issue and it's a public safety issue.
ARTHUR HAYHOE I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group right...
CLARENCE THOMAS A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arra...
EDMUND PHELPS Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ...
AYN RAND on many key issues such as congressional power; presidential authority; women's rights including abo...
ARLEN SPECTER I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
RAND PAUL To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political righ...
CALLIE KHOURI Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and p...
SUZY KASSEM Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and...
ROBERT DALE OWEN The best education system is based on quality and equality. Children who are allowed to fall behind ...
EVARIST BARTOLO If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democr...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody'...
OLIVER TAMBO Naturally, that will push up prices and we are seeing that ... in the last two years a property you ...
EMMA LEDWABA But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became over...
GARRETT HARDIN The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
CHARLES FOURIER The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
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AYN RAND Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roug...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group r...
CLARENCE THOMAS We have spent a huge amount of money and energy on research and development, so we hope other makers...
DENG GUOSHUN has an extensive bill of rights, individual protections for all individuals. It has freedom of speec...
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ROB KELLY What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.
THOMAS PIKETTY It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whethe...
SIGMUND FREUD Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL We can have a dialogue on equal basis on all the questions, all the issues -- including human rights...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that ...
DON ROSE Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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