by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
Hence are apparent the cause of the decay of arts amongst the Turks; and of the neglect and want of care in manuring and cultivating their lands; why their houses and private buildings are made slight, and not durable for more than ten or twenty years; why you find...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
To live securely, happily, and independently is the end and effect of liberty; and it is the ambition of all men to live agreeably to their own humours and discretion … therefore all men are animated by the passion of acquiring and defending property, because property...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Property
A man has but poor encouragement to bestow labor and expense upon a piece of ground, in which he has no secure property; and when neither himself, nor his posterity, will, probably, ever derive any permanent advantage from it. —Joseph Priestley. An Essay on the First...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Property
The right to property is not a construct of civilization, but rather an indisputable, indefeasible, divine right born of the natural law. It is based on the ownership by every person of his own body. This was explained by John Locke: Every man has a property in his...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 12, 2015 | Natural Law
The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with others, and of acting in common with them. The right of association therefore appears to me almost as inalienable in its nature as the right of personal...
