Inalienable Quotes

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God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and… — John Dryden
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to… — Jacques Delors
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. — Gary Hamel
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre
It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what… — Lysander Spooner
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are… — Leland Stanford
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a… — Victoria Woodhull
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any… — Oscar Wilde
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from… — Ronald Reagan
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. — Germaine Greer
The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a… — Oliver Sacks
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. — Fulton J. Sheen
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their… — David James Duncan
Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: â€œIâ€™ll do as I please at everybody… — Ayn Rand
I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didnâ€™t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -… — Charles B. Rangel
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did… — Tom Stoppard
All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents… — Dave Brat
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard

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