“It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.” MenShouldHumansHas BeensUseWisdomEvilPoliticsSpeakLibertyEconomyRightsEconomicSecurityFashionConflictFoundationPropertyHuman RightsRationalLiberalismCivilizedPrivate PropertyProperty RightsTaintedDependablePersonal LibertyEconomic Security Author:Walter Lippmann
“The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.” MightPassionFatherCommonRightsRationalWorriedImpulseFounding Author:David Harsanyi
“There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.” MayChanceRightsRationalFollyIrrationalGood Sense Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe