Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — 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
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Education, medical treatment, and work are the natural rights of every citizen in the world.” — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized… — Charles Edward Merriam 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
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — 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
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“We have a moral obligation to ignore or disobey evil laws and policies that trample our natural rights, such as the national… — Chris Hambleton Copy Share Image
“I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth” — J R Ortiz 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
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 laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton 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
In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are… — Clarence Darrow 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
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights,… — Thomas Paine 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
“Locke said that there is a circle of freedom surrounding each person and all people at birth. And within that circle is… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth 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
“. . . they who plead an absolute right cannot be satisfied with anything short of personal representation, because all natural rights… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of… — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
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