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.
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there's such a thing as too much freedom.
Liberty and Property are words expressing all those of our possessions which are not of an intellectual nature. There are two kinds of property. Firstly, natural property, or that which comes to us from the Creator of the universe-such as the earth, air, water. Secondly, artificial or acquired property-the invention of men. In the latter, equality is impossible; for to distribute it equally it would be necessary that all should have contributed in the same proportion, which can never be the case; and this being the case, every individual would hold on to his own property, as his right share. Equality of natural property is the subject of this little essay. Every individual in the world is born therein with legitimate claims on a certain kind of property, or its equivalent. -Agrarian Justice
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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