The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.” — JSB Morse 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
“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
“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
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people… — George Washington 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
“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
“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
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams 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
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
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
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs 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
“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
“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
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with… — Charles River Editors 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
“[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
“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
“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
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