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So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.