Top 8 Inalienable Rights Quotes

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Justice, Inalienable Rights

Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.574

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer

Inalienable Rights, Humans, Human Beings

The Times 1 Feb. 1986

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

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Inalienable Rights, Rich

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

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Inalienable Rights, Moral

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.618

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

Thomas Jefferson

Law, Tyrants, Inalienable Rights

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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

Thomas Jefferson

Life, Unalienable Rights, Inalienable Rights

Declaration of Independence (1776)

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Moon, Ideas, Inalienable Rights

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers”, p.270