Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and protecting property…

— Peter Heather

“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.”

— Bryant McGill

“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by man or…

— Mark R. Levin

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.”

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”

— Russell Shorto

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights…

— Thomas Paine

“In every such case, the individual is entitled to decide that which is his... shall be given to the public.”

— Louis Dembitz Brandeis

“These rights stand above the law of the land and, being universal in nature, are common to civilized society everywhere in the world. Thus,…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That civil power…

— Thomas Paine

“The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying…

— Alexander Hamilton