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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson 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
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson 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
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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