Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Quotes

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

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

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

The only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

... to teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every form of government...to teach the duty of government, to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

The right of private ownership of goods, including productive goods, has permanent validity. It is part of the natural order.

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

…it is the peculiar function of the state and the city to guarantee every man the free and undisturbed control of his own particular property.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

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

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.