Branches Quote by Samuel Adams

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for…

— John Locke

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

— Samuel Butler

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man…

— Pope Leo XIII

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or…

— L. Neil Smith

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do,…

— Thomas Hobbes

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

— Mary Beth Whitehead

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law…

— William Blackstone

“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. In accordance…

— Ayn Rand

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

“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right…

— Charles River Editors