
“I believe in upholding the right to private property but in controlling it for the public good.”
Broadcast speech (Nov. 11, 1934)
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 185
“I believe in upholding the right to private property but in controlling it for the public good.”
Broadcast speech (Nov. 11, 1934)
Source: The Social Principles of Jesus (1918), p. 127
Ch. 1 Marchamont Nedham : The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch16s15.html <!-- The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States vol. VI (1851) p. 9 -->
1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)
Context: The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
2004-07-03 speech to Congress opposing House resolution celebrating 40th anniversary of Civil Rights Act, quoted in * Civil Rights Act
RonPaul.com
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/civil-rights-act/
2000s, 2001-2005
2000s
Source: Review of Communism and Man by F. J. Sheed in Peace News (27 January 1939)
“The right to discriminate is the essence of liberty,” https://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2015/das-recht-auf-diskriminierung-ist-die-essenz-der-freiheit/ Junge Freiheit, April 9, 2015.
2010s, 2015
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Q&A