Property Rights

Capital movements are no

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Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation’s wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described … Read more

The people never give

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

Where justice is denied,

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied,

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

Try to imagine a

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Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice. Frederic Bastiat

But how is this

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But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do … Read more