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
“The natural rights which he retains are all those in which the Power to execute is as perfect in the individual as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Everybody is satisfied, that a conservation and secure enjoyment of our natural rights is the great and ultimate purpose of civil society;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Although the natural rights inherent in our( Constitutional) regime are adequate to the solution of this ( minority) problem...the equal protection of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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