People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
People have the right to say what they want to.