#natural right

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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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. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#any #anybody #body #else #i

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights. ↗

— William H. Seward

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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#change #constitutional #day #every #every 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. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#best #colonists #defend #first #liberty

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ↗

— Voltaire

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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. ↗

— James Madison

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