Absolute Quote by John Marshall

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest…

— John Marshall

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

— Thomas Jefferson

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his…

— William O. Douglas

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end…

— Alexander Hamilton

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which…

— Salmon P. Chase

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

— Ayn Rand

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

— James Otis

“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

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are…

— Jurgen Habermas

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of…

— James Madison