“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.” — Bryant McGill 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
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. — Marquis de Lafayette 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
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion… — Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of… — 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
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
“...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
“John Dewey (1859–1952), among the foremost progressive thinkers. Dewey, like Croly and Wilson, among others, claimed that progressivism was, in essence, a… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are… — Thomas Paine 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Those who fail to claim their natural rights as men risk being treated as the property of others, rather than as human… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to… — Alex Tabarrok 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
“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 Copy Share Image
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second to liberty; third to property; together with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed… — Lysander Spooner 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
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
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![“It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3fd/thomas-jefferson-43_certain_it-appears-that-however-certain-forms-of_1041215.jpg)
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![“[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the…” quote by Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74e/samuel-adams-3491_america_i-t-is-the-greatest-absurdity-to-suppose_814662.jpg)
