Quotes About Rights

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

Rights come from God and only from God.

Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.