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John Adams

letter to Mercy Warren — 1776
Category: Rights
Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.

James Wilson

Lectures on Law — 1791
Category: Rights
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to Roger C. Weightman — 1826
Category: Rights
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride legitimately, by the grace of God.

James Madison

Speech at the Virginia Convention — 1829
Category: Rights
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.

Thomas Jefferson

Rights of British America — 1774
Category: Rights
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson

Letter to James Monroe — 1791
Category: Rights
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Thomas Jefferson

Letter to John Cartwright — 1824
Category: Rights
Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Alexander Hamilton

The Farmer Refuted — 1775
Category: Rights
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address — 1801
Category: Rights
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Alexander Hamilton

The Farmer Refuted — 1775
Category: Rights
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice.

James Madison

letter to Thomas Jefferson — 1788
Category: Rights
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.

Thomas Jefferson

Rights of British America — 1774
Category: Rights
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to John Cartwright — 1824
Category: Rights
Nothing...is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to Samuel Adams Wells — 1819
Category: Rights
The Declaration of Independence...[is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Rights of British America — 1774
Category: Rights
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist No. 84 — 1788
Category: Rights
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist No. 84 — 1788
Category: Rights
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?

James Madison

National Gazette Essay — 1792
Category: Rights
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
The Virginia Bill of Rights — 1776
Category: Rights
That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Declaration of Independence — 1776
Category: Rights
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Samuel Adams

Rights of the Colonists — 1772
Category: Rights
If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.

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