Natural rights Quotes · Page 2

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are…

— Clarence Darrow

“The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure…

— Edmund Burke

It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Those who fail to claim their natural rights as men risk being treated as the property of others, rather than as human…

— Joseph Befumo

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law…

— Lysander Spooner

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

— Jeremy Bentham

What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not…

— Herbert Spencer

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of…

— Thomas Hutchinson

For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of…

— Frank Van Dun

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving…

— Alexander Hamilton

“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That…

— Thomas Paine

“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the…

— Thomas Paine

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

— James Madison

Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations…

— Alexander Hamilton

“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

“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

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are…

— Theodore Parker

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

— Carl L. Becker

“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…

— Oliver Ellsworth