Quotes About Unalienable Rights

#1. Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. In fact, those who lobby for politicians to respect any of the people's "unalienable rights" do not believe in unalienable rights at all. Rights which require "government" approval are not unalienable, and are not even rights.

Larken Rose

#3. The ostrich is a bird that lost its ability to fly. So 'unalienable rights' should be translated into 'mutable characteristics'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

J.S.B. Morse

#5. I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

Mike Huckabee

#6. The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims all men [and women] are endowed by their creator.

Antonin Scalia

#7. The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.

Alan Keyes

#8. Harming one's unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.

J.S.B. Morse

#9. Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women) are created equal' and are afforded unalienable rights. Way to go, Mr. President! Stand up for what you believe and for the people of this country.

Barack Obama

#10. Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Francis Hutcheson

#11. The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

Mike Crapo

#12. He amended the thought to say that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," thus

Christopher Hitchens

#13. Majority rule must stop at our unalienable rights. Without that, pure democratic rule is a terrible thing. It's like two wolves and a lamb voting to see what's for dinner.

LaVoy Finicum

#14. Our head is designed to devote ourselves to self- education

Sunday Adelaja

#15. How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

Barack Obama

#17. 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.

Albert Gallatin

#18. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. The more I speak the more I make mistakes so. I speak less and listen more

Nicolas Kalinde

#20. Well, we seem to have it.

Edmund Morris

#21. I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways.

Garth Stein

#22. Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

Alan Dershowitz

#23. No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

J.S.B. Morse