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• 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

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