Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The cornerstone of our creed is that all humans are created equal and that we all have the same inalienable rights granted… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“History has shown time and time again that there is no such thing as all things being equal. That is why Jefferson… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...[M]an and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be arbitrarily used by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The very notion of “natural rights” is a mere fiction, and the antitraditional and subversive use of that is well documented. There… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“We hated not knowing something. We hated not knowing who was going to walk Spanish down the hall. How would our bills… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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