The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
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