Individual rights Quote by Russell Shorto Download Open image ““a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”” — Russell Shorto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Individual rights
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a claim to… — Roger Pilon Copy Share Image
“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“So how, in an increasingly interconnected world, do we integrate and still keep our values?” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine,… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“Relying on physical remedies alone was often seen as downright ungodly: in England, Puritan minister John Sym advised “caution” that people “dote not upon,… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years’ time would be christened New Jersey, was in… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
You see, what makes us different than the rest of the world fundamentally is our American respect and legal appreciation of individual rights and… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I believe it was Napoleon who first sensed the ease with which, in modern society, the illusion of freedom can be created by strategic… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
