Best Natural Right Quotes

49 Natural Right quotes by 24 unique authors

Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most… — Algernon Sidney
A government of our own is our natural right — Thomas Paine
A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense… — Diosdado Macapagal
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit… — Leo Strauss
Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property… — Thomas Paine
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that… — Thomas Jefferson
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest… — Henry George
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. — Thomas Aquinas
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to… — Thomas Aquinas
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. — James Madison
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them… — Lysander Spooner
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make… — Lysander Spooner
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 the… — Lysander Spooner
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to… — Lysander Spooner
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire
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
I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense… — Milton Friedman
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to… — Anais Nin
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men… — James Otis
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire
Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of… — Edgar A Suter
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right… — Thomas Jefferson

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