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Natural Right Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Natural Right Quotes
- 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… — Thomas Jefferson
- The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson
- If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams
- Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — 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,… — Thomas Jefferson
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — 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… — Thomas Paine
- The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz