Absorb Quote by Auberon Herbert

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or…

— Lysander Spooner

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to…

— Edmund Burke

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin…

— Thomas Paine

“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of the young,…

— Ayn Rand

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

— Charles James Fox

Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

— Anonymous

Women have rights (over against men) equal to the rights (they owe men) but men have precedence over them.

— Afica Child

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

— Edmund Burke

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

— Abraham Lincoln

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier…

— Ayn Rand

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

— Ayn Rand