Private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, for owners and scarcely less for non-owners

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• A society as wealthy as ours has no reason not to guarantee basic security to all without endangering freedom FHFriedrich Hayekc. 1944
• While people freely control their income and possessions, economic loss only costs them their least important wants FHFriedrich Hayekc. 1944
• Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom. PSPeter Singer24 Jul 2026
• The more population exceeds the environment's carrying capacity, the more freedoms must be given up GHGarrett Hardinc. 1998
• English liberty has been reduced to the security of property, a selfish principle to which nobler ones are sacrificed MWMary Wollstonecraft18 Dec 1790

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