Acquire Quote by Lysander Spooner

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— John Locke

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

— Pope Leo XIII

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

— Voltaire

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights,…

— Edmund Burke

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

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty…

— William Penn

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

— James Madison