Natural Rights Quotes
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Natural Rights Quotes & Sayings
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I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth
— J.R. Ortiz
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
— William H. Seward
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
— Michelle Moran
[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
— Jeffrey Rosen
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.
— J.S.B. Morse
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
— Thomas Jefferson
The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.
— Rachel Maddow
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.
— Jeremy Bentham
Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.
— John Stuart Mill
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
— Charles James Fox
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
— Thomas Jefferson
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
— Marquis De Lafayette
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
— Jefferson Davis
We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
— Adrian Cronauer
Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
— A.E. Samaan
We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
— Walter Scott
No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.
— J.S.B. Morse
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson
A human being has no natural rights of any nature.
— Robert A. Heinlein
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
— Carl L. Becker