Natural Rights Quotes

Natural Rights Quote of the day

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

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.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

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

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

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.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.

Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.