Access Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property…

— William H. Seward

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to…

— Edmund Burke

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

— Charles James Fox

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

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

— Blaise Pascal

Human beings are equal to one another. No one has any right nor any preference to claim over another.

— Anonymous

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

— Edmund Burke

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

— John Locke

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal…

— Joseph Priestley

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

— Rush Limbaugh

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

— Calvin Coolidge

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin…

— Thomas Paine