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"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
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"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."

"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."

"The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum."

""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority."

"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."

"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever."
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"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it."


"That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."


"The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind."


"So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community."


"The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island."


"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
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