“The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.” FatherForceWealthHigherOfficeConstitutionPropertyFoundingQualificationsDemonstratingVenerationFramers Author:Bill Moyers
“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.” PeopleIfsMenWellsSelfCountryWisdomGovernmentPoliticalFatherPoliticsIndividualSocialWealthLibertyEnemyEconomySawsRightsEconomicRepublicanSucceedUnderstoodFlowPropertyInsightExperimentsLiberalismEnterpriseFoundingOur Founding FathersPolitical PowerFree EnterpriseIndividual LibertySelf-governmentEconomic Power Author:Ronald Reagan
“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?” MenFirstsSaidStatesFatherBornChurchDemocracyCenturyTheoryPropertyEvery ManOrganizedTheftInventorWorkshopsMontesquieu Book:Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers
“What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.” IfsWayLawFatherLosesMissingProtectTraditionPropertyProtected Author:Dexter Scott King
“Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.” FatherConflictTaxesEnglandPropertyBloodyOur FatherUnmarriedMarried Women Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters