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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. -- Anatole Broyard
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. -- John Ciardi
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. -- Germaine Greer
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. -- Robert Frost
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing. -- Terrence McNally
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. -- Maximilien Robespierre
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. -- Gary Hamel
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Victoria Woodhull
Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis. -- Kevin Bleyer
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property. -- Salmon P. Chase
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. -- Leland Stanford
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. -- Hans Kung
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. -- Michael Novak
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity. -- Leland Stanford
I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights. -- Victoria Moran
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent. -- Michael Moriarty
It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.' -- Lysander Spooner
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes. -- George Clooney
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. -- Tom Stoppard
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. -- Victoria Woodhull
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. -- Samuel P. Huntington
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us. -- Charles B. Rangel
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. -- Jacques Delors
All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights. -- Dave Brat
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor. -- Roxane Gay
Accept certain inalienable truths. -- Baz Luhrmann
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. -- Germaine Greer
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights. -- Lucretia Mott
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment. -- Gaylord Nelson
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... -- Susanne Katherina Langer
It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki. -- Lisa Birnbach
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. -- Evelyn Waugh
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights -- Thomas Jefferson
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. -- Brian Aldiss
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. -- George Jellinek
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right. -- Philip Schaff
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. -- Baruch Spinoza
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression. -- Betty Goodwin
...when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable." -- Marianne Wiggins
If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? -- Glenn Beck
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual... -- Ronald Reagan
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". -- Erik Naggum
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. -- Fulton J. Sheen
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. -- Constance Rourke
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining -- Wallace D. Wattles
Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it. -- James A. Michener
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty. -- David James Duncan
For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. -- Matt Taibbi
Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis. --
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. -- Ayn Rand
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God. -- Dennis Prager
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors. -- Jonathan Swift
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. -- Harry S. Truman
Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument. -- Rich Burlew
It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security. -- Harry S. Truman
I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given. -- Sarah Palin
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. -- L. Ron Hubbard
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. -- Oscar Wilde
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men. -- James Madison
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society -- Michael Novak
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. -- Bhagat Singh
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. -- Dominique de Menil
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent. -- Michael Moriarty
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. -- Ronald Reagan
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights -- Salmon P. Chase
Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. -- Corey Hart
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. -- John Dryden
To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character. -- Frances Gray Patton
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individualâ??s inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination, -- Corey Hart
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose . -- Henry B. Eyring
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them. -- Helen Keller
We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer. -- Indira Gandhi

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