by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
“Thou shalt not steal,” carries with it a complete charter of the rights of property. —Herbert Spencer. The Law, 1850. When you accept a government subsidy, when you accept welfare, when you send your children to a public school, when you ride a subsidized government...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society. —John...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
Nor could any man in the state of nature, have a right to violate the property of another; that is, what another had acquired by his act or labor; or to interrupt him in his industry and enjoyments, as long as he himself was not injured by that industry and those...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
It is competition made possible by the dispersion of property that deprives the individual owners of particular things of all coercive powers. —Friedrich Hayek. The Constitution of Liberty, 1960. The unnatural growth of big business and the inhibition of small...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | Property
Freedom is … a liberty to dispose, and order, as he likes, his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property … not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own. —John Locke. Two Treatises of Government, 1689. Governments should...
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...
