Everything that, directly or indirectly, harms property, undermines confidence or is detrimental to safety, is an obstacle to capital formation and falls down on the shoulders of the working class.
Category: Property
REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE LANDES IN 1849 PERTAINING TO THE QUESTION OF COLLECTIVE PROPERTY
It is dangerous to believe that this right should be removed in the face of the legislator’s wishes.
CAPITAL
The proletarian needs to know and be convinced that his interest, his main and crucial interest, is that capital be plentiful around him.
LETTER TO MR. JOBARD
If I had been the first man to wear clogs, should all men on the surface of the earth be compelled to go barefoot by law?
FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION
Freeing trade is a question of prosperity, justice, order and peace.
PROJECT OF AN ANTI-PROTECTIONIST LEAGUE
The law grants us all the total freedom to sell; it needs to grant us the total freedom to buy.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
We proclaim our deep respect for the property of this class of people who is the most fervent in opposing our demands.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
I am warning them that they are undermining the very foundations of property, whichever it is.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Is the right to exchange, if it is a right, worth our bothering about ?
LETTER TO HIPPOLYTE CASTILLE
As admirable as selflessness may be, it does not even desserve its name if it is required by law.
SPEECH AT THE CIRCLE OF BOOKSTORES
It is not the law that created property, but on the contrary, property which required to write the law.
FREE TRADE
Our demand is that our fellow countrymen, who are free to work, be free to trade the fruits of their labour.
DECLARATION
EXCHANGE is a natural right, as is PROPERTY.
LETTER TO THE JOURNAL DES ECONOMISTES
Oh, let us not readily believe that Ricardo, Say, Malthus, and Rossi, such eminent and well-founded minds, are mistaken. But let us not, either, lightly admit a theory that leads to such monstrosities.
LANDED PROPERTY.
Value is determined after bargaining between two contracting parties.
LANDED PROPERTY.
It is perhaps not idle to point out that laws of this nature are iniquitous and disastrous, whatever may be the opinion of either oppressed or oppressor toward them.
LANDED PROPERTY.
Thus, Jonathan learned that, under a system of liberty, not everyone who will may become a monopolist.
LANDED PROPERTY.
Economists, socialists, egalitarians, all direct the same reproach against landed property, that of charging for something that it has no right to charge for.
LANDED PROPERTY.
Every man OWNS LEGITIMATELY THE THING which his labor, his intelligence, or, more generally, HIS ACTIVITY HAS CREATED.
LANDED PROPERTY.
In other words, the workman and the entrepreneur are paid, in the name of justice, for services that they render; the landowner is paid, in the name of the law, for services that he does not render.
LANDED PROPERTY.
And I say, as emphatically as I know how: Property is not a privilege.
PRIVATE PROPERTY AND COMMON WEALTH.
Communism destroys liberty, for it permits no one to dispose freely of his own labor.
PRIVATE PROPERTY AND COMMON WEALTH.
It is not the principle of property that must be attacked, but, on the contrary, the principle hostile to it, the principle of spoliation and plunder.
CAPITAL.
It increases or decreases according to the fluctuations of supply and demand, that is, according to the particular pressures of the moment and the general prosperity of society.
ON VALUE.
It is not granted to any man to arrive at the outermost limits of knowledge. Scholars climb upon one another’s shoulders to explore a horizon that keeps on extending farther and farther.
CAPITAL AND RENT
They did not seek out learned economists; there were none in the locality. But they chose just men with common sense, which amounted to the same thing: political economy, justice, and common sense are one and the same.
PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM
…when it is generalized, protectionism becomes communism, just as carp fry become adult carp…
PROPERTY AND PLUNDER
When I see labor growing angry with capital, I seem to be seeing starvation rejecting food.
PROPERTY AND LAW
I will draw to your attention here that when you analyze the notion of property, it is irrational and dangerous to make this word a synonym of opulence and in particular of ill-gotten opulence.
PROPERTY AND LAW
Since Rousseau was convinced that the social state was a human invention, he had to place law and the legislator on a high pedestal.