Natural rights Quote by Thom Hartmann

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of…

— Alan Dershowitz

“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our…

— Don Willett

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of…

— Gerrit Smith

“After all, a Constitution is what the judges say it is. This is bound to be so when a nation adopts a Constitution, setting…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

— Jason Laumark

“And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They’re explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government.…

— Thom Hartmann

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his…

— Robert Ringer