The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.