Rights Origin Quotes

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

Rights come from God, not from government.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

We believe in traditional values because without them, without the belief in an all-powerful God, then the very founding of our country was meaningless. It was founded on the principles that our rights come from God. If there is no God, then where do your rights come from other than what your leaders decide they are?