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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. -- Frederic Bastiat
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. -- Voltaire
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. -- James Madison
If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm. -- Sharon Jones
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. -- Jack Kevorkian
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands. -- Benjamin Franklin
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. -- Lysander Spooner
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions. -- Lysander Spooner
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man. -- Lysander Spooner
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
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking. -- Lysander Spooner
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. -- Thomas Aquinas
A government of our own is our natural right -- Thomas Paine
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing. -- Epictetus
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. -- Ilona Andrews
Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural. -- Julian Baggini
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. -- Thomas Jefferson
[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness. -- Jeffrey Rosen
When someone starts to change, and it's obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right? -- Sarah Dessen
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. -- Rufus Choate
Every healthy VÃ¶lk sees the right to expansion of its living space as something natural. -- Adolf Hitler
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Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . . -- Edward Gibbon
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. -- Thomas Aquinas
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. -- Thomas Jefferson
If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths. -- F.T. McKinstry
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I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. -- Patrick Marber
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. -- Thomas Clarkson
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. -- Maya Angelou
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. -- Thomas Jefferson
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person. -- Tatiana Maslany
The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition. -- David Novak
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. -- Charles Spurgeon
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. -- Sir Fulke Greville
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. -- Benjamin Cardozo
What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right. -- Malcolm X
Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way. -- Vladimir Vasiliev
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. -- Sallust
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right. -- Rajneesh
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. -- Marquis de Lafayette
Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe. -- Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression. -- James Madison
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right. -- Bernard Bailyn
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. " Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing. -- Scott Anderson
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right. -- Charles James Fox
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. -- Jack Kevorkian
Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me. -- Justin Broadrick
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right! -- Frances Farmer
People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right. -- James Madison
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly. -- Confucius
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility. -- Edward Gibbon
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. -- Naguib Mahfouz
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. -- Laurence Housman
That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources. -- Clea Koff
And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good. -- Terrence Howard
Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well. -- Irene Cara
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. -- Thomas Jefferson
For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r -- William Butler Yeats
If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction. -- Ramez Naam
Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality. -- Chris Hayes
I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans. -- Taylor Swift
There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me. -- Katherine Heigl
Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom. -- Stephen Levine
Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding -- Edgar A. Suter
Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it. -- Thomas Paine
The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment." -- Joseph Farah
The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate. -- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which may be true. But I'm looking forward to nailing it. -- Serena Williams
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past. -- Roland Barthes
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away. -- John Goodwin
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. -- Thomas Jefferson
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. -- Henry George
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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