Natural Right Quotes

49 quotes by 24 authors

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to… — Thomas Jefferson
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves… — Ulysses S. Grant
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act… — Thomas Jefferson
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand… — Samuel Adams
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right… — Walter E. Williams
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson
A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced,… — Thomas Paine
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand… — Samuel Ruiz
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,… — Thomas Jefferson
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no… — Thomas Jefferson
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. — Thomas Jefferson
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression. — James Madison
We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget… — Henry B. Eyring
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism â€” nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… — Thomas Jefferson

Who Wrote These Natural Right Quotes

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