Inalienable Rights Quotations

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

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

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

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

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.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

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

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