Constitutional rights Quote by Gerrit Smith

The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership…

— Amartya Sen

“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human beings, “natural…

— Thom Hartmann

Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the…

— Ram Nath Kovind

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

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;…

— William Blackstone

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years…

— Ayn Rand

True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That means exercise…

— Walter E. Williams

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

— Frederic Bastiat

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;…

— William Godwin

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one…

— Lysander Spooner

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

— Thomas Jefferson