Born Quote by William Penn

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected…

— John Locke

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their…

— George Mason

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being…

— John Locke

“Those who fail to claim their natural rights as men risk being treated as the property of others, rather than as human beings with…

— Joseph Befumo

All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.

— The Constitution Of Massachusetts

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of…

— John J Sweeney

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal…

— Joseph Priestley

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by…

— John Marshall Harlan

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to…

— Thomas Paine