Inalienable Rights Quotes

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.