Unalienable Quotes

34 quotes by 27 authors

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an… — Isaiah Berlin
Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women)… — Barack Obama
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments. — Francis Hutcheson
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection,… — Alexander Hamilton
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of… — James Madison
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of… — William Paterson
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied… — George W. Bush
Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found… — George Mason
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We… — Barack Obama
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. — Germaine Greer
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon… — L. Neil Smith
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created… — Alan Keyes
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or… — Harlan F. Stone
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for… — Ezra Stiles
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims all men… — Antonin Scalia
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable… — James Madison
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the… — Samuel Adams
I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even… — Louie Gohmert

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