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Natural Rights Quotes

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"Every human being is imbued with a certain level of Rights by nature of their very existence."
"Natural rights are fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory."
"The right to property is not just the creation of government or of law; it is a natural right."
"You are born with natural rights. You are born a free man or free woman."
"You have a natural right to defend your life... it comes from God."
"We, as human beings, are born free; we were made to be free."
"Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness - those are the truths that we hold to be natural rights."
"As government tries to become heavier handed, it is going to naturally impede on the natural rights we have."
"It's not a privilege, it's a right, it's a god-given right inherent in your creation."
"The philosophy of the US rests on three basic principles: first, the reality of natural rights pre-existing government..."
"Using your intuition, connecting with your guides is natural, it is your god-given right."
"Men are born to be free, not to be ruled by benevolent autocrats."
"Jefferson asserted that people had natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"The government cannot take away your rights as they are endowed by your creator."
"Self-defense is a natural right, and this is one of the reasons why our constitution recognizes the right to keep and bear arms."
"Your freedoms do not derive from government, they derive from the creator of the universe."
"Our constitutional rights are natural rights regardless of the Constitution and they are for everyone."
"Rights come from God, no government has the legitimate authority to violate those rights."
"The fundamental rights and value of nature lie at the heart of the Terra Carta."
"Each of us has the right to live our own life however we see fit, so long as we're not violating the natural rights of others."
"Natural rights offer the moral justification for self-defense, not the destruction of everybody else."
"Our rights are endowed in us by our creator."
"The need for government is only there by depriving us of natural things."
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
"Rights come from the creator, or nature; these are unchangeable truths."
"Our Liberty isn't just taken for granted. You have natural rights, unalienable rights that are Creator-given."
"Our liberties are given to us by God. If those liberties came from anywhere else, then they can be taken by whoever gave them to us."
"In the state of nature, we have natural rights, inherent to us as individuals."
"There is the right to resist violent attack against one's life, Liberty, and property."
"The civil society grows out of the need to preserve and enhance our natural rights."
"The abolitionist movement's core argument was the idea of natural rights, in particular, the right of property that each person had in him or herself."
"Natural rights tend to be the best way to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number."
"An unjust law is one that violates natural rights or demeans humanity."
"The second amendment, the right to keep and own guns, is a natural right for everybody."
"Creatures of the same species and born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection."
"The world is as new to him as it was to the first man that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind."
"He is widely known for defending natural right, especially in its classical form, against the challenges of relativism and historicism."
"Ancient natural right is the better alternative; it is superior to modern natural right which is all about individualism and self-interest."
"It's almost impossible to overstate how important that is because our whole conception of the idea of natural rights is predicated on the idea that there's something about you as an individual whose value is inviolable."
"Rights are not granted by the government, they're recognized as god-given rights."
"Every nation in the world fights for its land and its freedom. Every creature that God created knows how to fight, and I have that right."
"The idea is the Constitution, natural rights, and things like that are the start of the Enlightenment."
"It is your birthright because you live on the earth."
"The sovereign divine right always reverts to the natural living sentient man and woman."
"The express trust is created by the exercise of the natural right to contract which cannot be abridged."
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
"...a natural right is a right that we can observe through reason because it presents itself in the natural world."
"Each person has a natural right to life, liberty, and property that are not to be defined by the state."