Bearing arms Quote by John Adams

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

— Francis Hutcheson

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible…

— Simon Critchley

The rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“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

“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

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid…

— William Blackstone

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Rights are in the power of the people.

— Ken Starr

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely…

— Edward Snowden

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government…

— Thomas Jefferson