Originally Posted by Phil Hoskins
Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
Without private property there is no liberty.

Not so. A person can own nothing and be free as a bird. It may be less convenient, but just as a homeless person if he or she is free. Most will say yes and insist on keeping that freedom even in the face of an offer of assistance.
Liberty is protected by the right to own property. In totalitarian states where there isn't a right to own property everyone is homeless, the state owns everything, and no one is free. One does not need to own something to be free but when the right to own property doesn't exist no one can be free.

The state can never straighten the crooked timber of humanity.
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