Quote by Thomas Piketty

“Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, France, 1789”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public…

— Thomas Paine

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris: The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him.…

— Hilary Mantel

“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it…

— Thomas Paine

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of…

— James Madison

“Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more…

— Hannah Arendt

“the Declaration of Independence does not mean we are equal in endowments, only in rights.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality…

— Harry V. Jaffa

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

— Ayn Rand