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Letter "R" » right to liberty
«I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.»
«In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.»
«The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.»
«Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can»
Author: Samuel Adams
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Politician)
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About:
Right
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Keywords:
Among the,
colonist,
colonists,
defend,
manner,
Natural right,
natural rights,
property,
property right,
property rights,
right to liberty,
right to life,
secondly,
The Natural,
thirdly
«If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.»
«Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.»
«If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.»
Author: Jon Stewart
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
American,
Ashcroft,
attack,
attorney,
attorneys,
Attorney General,
civil,
civil liberties,
civil liberty,
civil right,
civil rights,
evens,
general,
john,
John A,
John Ashcroft,
John D,
liberty,
proven,
rights,
right to liberty,
September,
September 11,
take away,
terrorists,
terrorist attack,
terrorist attacks
«Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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About:
Action
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Keywords:
according,
ADD,
drawn,
equal,
Equal rights,
extent,
individual,
individual liberty,
Individual right,
individual rights,
law,
liberty,
limits,
plenitude,
rightful,
rights,
right to liberty,
The Law,
tyrant,
unobstructed,
violates,
violating
«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 one's conscience.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
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Orator,
Politician)
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Keywords:
coercive,
dictates,
inalienable,
Inalienable rights,
interfere,
in so far,
restrain,
right to liberty,
right to life,
right to the pursuit of happiness,
The Pursuit of Happiness
«Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty»