Inalienable Rights Quotes

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.

For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

If all men are created equal, that is final.

If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

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.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South.

It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the.

.. liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties.

The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

I have seen the rise of fascism and communism.

Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.