Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.

Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand