I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Education, medical treatment, and work are the natural rights of every citizen in the world.” — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
“Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.” — John Stuart Mill 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
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
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
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
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
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. — Thomas Jefferson 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
“Freedom of association is one of the natural rights of man. Clearly, therefore, it should also be a "civil" right. Right-to-work laws… — Barry M. Goldwater 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
“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
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
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell 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
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
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
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
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
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone 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
“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That… — Thomas Paine 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“English political sagacity is compounded of instinctive reactions to immediate situations and a wisdom, gained by cumulative experience, which guides instinct through… — Reinhold Neibuhr Copy Share Image
“Every history of the creation, and every traditionary account, whether from the lettered or unlettered world, however they may vary in their… — 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
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