Quotes About Rights

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

People have to respect intellectual property.

People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

My District is all too familiar with federal government attempts to seize control of private property and private water rights.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

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

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

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

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

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.

If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists, law firms, and investors exercise their rights to it alongside your own.

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

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.