Private Property

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Daniella Bassi

Many scholars employ excessively narrow notions of homesteading which wrongly suggest that virtually all Indian hunting grounds and food sources were "unowned."  

Peter Schiff

Many landlords just received a crash course about how irrelevant their property rights are in Washington.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hoppe lays out the nature and role of private property in human relations and the flawed concept of public property.

Terry Anderson P.J. Hill

It appears in the absence of formal government, that the Western frontier was not as wild as legend would have us believe.

Murray N. Rothbard

One big problem a government police force must always face is: What laws really to enforce? Police departments are theoretically faced with the absolute injunction, “enforce all laws,” but in practice scarcity means only some laws are enforced. Which ones?

Ludwig von Mises

That gold was used as money in the past is merely a historical fact. But the fact that gold was a form of private money, and thus not easily manipulated for government schemes, made it a target of countless intellectual and governmental assaults. 

Herbert Spencer

The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny; the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also ... "You shall do as we will, and not as you will," is in either case the declaration.

David Gordon

A right to exclude others from one's property does not mean one is also motivated to repeatedly do so.