Lysander Spooner Quotes

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.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property.

No doubt that a great deal of nonsense has been written about the “unalienable rights of individuals.”

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

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

What vested rights so high or so sacred as a man’s right to himself, to his wife and children, to his liberty, and to the fruits of his own industry? Did not our fathers declare that those rights were inalienable?

The Bill of Rights is one of the greatest documents of freedom ever devised in human experience. It is of particular importance to those who have been the victims of oppression.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his 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

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.