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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights. -- Lucretia Mott
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
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual... -- Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
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
Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not. -- Ben Shapiro
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively. -- Walter Lippmann
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. -- Calvin Coolidge
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. -- Rob Brezsny
Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored. -- Pope Benedict XVI
To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop. -- Pope John Paul II
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience. -- William Jennings Bryan
July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Calvin Coolidge
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity... -- Joe Biden
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights -- Thomas Jefferson
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. -- George Jellinek
If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? -- Glenn Beck
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. -- Gary Hamel
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". -- Erik Naggum
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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