William Blackstone Quotes

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

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.

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

Property is proper to man.

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

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

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

Make no mistake. Without individual property, none are free.

The law may do what it will with the owner of property, its just power will still attach to the cent.

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

The right to private property is valid, but all private property is under a "social mortgage.

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

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.

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.