Delegates Quote by John Locke

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

— John Locke

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being…

— John Locke

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist,…

— Will Durant

“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

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

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

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

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

— Edmund Burke

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it;…

— Lysander Spooner