Freedom Quote by Frederic Bastiat Download Open image “Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.” — Frederic Bastiat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Liberty Natural Nature Property
For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country. — Chris Cuomo Copy Share Image
Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We're here to defend the rights that are enshrined to us by the Constitution, as Americans. — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice.… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image