# Quote — Richard Pipes, Property and Freedom

> A theoretical defense of private property as a feature of Natural Law, however, was not fully made until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the age of Jean Bodin and Hugo Grotius. But that the idea occurred to Romans is evident from Cicero’s argument that government could not interfere with private property because it had been created in order to protect it.

- Author: [Richard Pipes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes.md)
- Book: [Property and Freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom.md)
- Page: 12
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