Natural Rights Quotes
45 Natural Rights quotes by 27 unique authors
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right…
— Samuel Adams
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[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
— Alexander Hamilton
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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
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Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as…
— Harrison Schmitt
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[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore,…
— Thomas Hutchinson
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf,…
— Thomas Paine
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Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
— Thomas Jefferson
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To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
— Carl L. Becker
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In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by…
— Charles Edward Merriam
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We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted…
— Chuck Woolery
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In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,…
— Samuel Adams
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to…
— Samuel Adams
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Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of…
— John Trudell
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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to…
— Joseph Priestley
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The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but…
— Albert J. Nock
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... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is…
— Unknown Author
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the…
— Robert Higgs
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