Property is liberty.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Ownership is equated with personal freedom in this brief assertion.
- In plain terms
- Having property makes you free.
- What can you take from it?
- Property rights are essential to liberty.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does property always mean freedom?
- Whose liberty is protected?
Another view
Property can also restrict others' freedom.
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