the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — 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
“he amended the thought to say that men were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” thus” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident and federally taxable: that all men are created equal--just in different brackets; that they are… — Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The little band of patriots who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in Philadelphia had something very different in… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“No nation can approve violence against the most innocent and vulnerable, and expect the effects of that approval to be limited. By… — Paul Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It requires emphasis that the states established the American Republic and, through the Constitution, retained for themselves significant authority to ensure the… — Mark R. Levin 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
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and… — William Paterson Copy Share Image
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is… — Mike Crapo 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
All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. — The Constitution Of Massachusetts Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson 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