Law Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights…

— Thomas Paine

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling,…

— Frank Van Dun

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

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

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;…

— William Blackstone

It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of…

— James Madison

“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.”

— Bryant McGill

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

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