Benefits Quote by Leland Stanford

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

— Roger Sherman

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

The essence of right living is to do good to others.

— Shri Radhe Maa

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which,…

— William Howard Taft

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm…

— Arthur Goldberg

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

“Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness…

— Daniel Friedmann

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and…

— Lewis B. Schwellenbach

Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his…

— Wallace D. Wattles

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

— Tom Stoppard

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels…

— Friedrich Nietzsche