Inalienable Quotes

86 quotes by 71 authors

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is… — George Clooney
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. — John Ciardi
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and… — Pope John Paul II
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.… — Walter Lippmann
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. — Robert Frost
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression. — Betty Goodwin
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights. — Lucretia Mott
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of… — Harry S. Truman
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights… — Ronald Reagan
"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together… — Hermann Rauschning
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted… — Chuck Woolery
There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.Â For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese… — Aldo Leopold
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among… — Thomas Jefferson
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining — Wallace D. Wattles
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time… — Jefferson Davis

Who Wrote These Inalienable Quotes

71 authors contributed a total of 86 Inalienable Quotes, led by these top contributors: