Commission Quote by Caleb Cushing

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.”

— Bryant McGill

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;…

— William Blackstone

“And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They’re explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government.…

— Thom Hartmann

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

— Jefferson Davis

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.”

— Joseph Befumo

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

— Jeremy Bentham

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right…

— Samuel Adams

“Without a criterion enabling us to distinguish genuine human rights from the many impostors we will never be sure that our legal provisions, however…

— Roger Scruton

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of…

— Lysander Spooner

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them…

— Anonymous