Quote of the day - Joe Sobran

The steady diminution of property rights -- their practical divorce from "civil rights" -- is one good measure of the modern state's growing control over the material necessities of life. It has been forgotten that one of the purposes of abolishing slavery was to enable its victims to cease being owned property and to become property-owners.

Joe Sobran

Quote of the day - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

At its founding and throughout its early history, this regime revered private property. The American philosophy of the Rights of Man relied heavily on the indissoluble connection between rationality, property, freedom and justice. The Founders viewed the right of property as “the guardian of every other right”….[IFJ speech at 5]

Justice Janice Rogers Brown

Quote of the day - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

In the New Deal/Great Society era, a rule that was the polar opposite of the classical era of American law reigned...Protection of property was a major casualty of the Revolution of 1937…Rights were reordered and property acquired a second class status...It thus became government’s job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and redistribute it. And, the epic proportions of the disaster which has befallen millions of people during the ensuing decades has not altered our fervent commitment to statism.

Justice Janice Rogers Brown

[Federalist speech at 12, 13]