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Natural Rights 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.
- Samuel Adams

The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth
- J R Ortiz

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

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
- William H Seward

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. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
- George Washington

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